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COMPOSITING | Showreel from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

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COMPOSITING | Showreel from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

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COMPOSITING | Showreel from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Compositing Work Highlights. More than 20 year of experience, working on a number of Hollywood films, including Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ and ‘127 Hours’, plus many more. Considered a visual effects compositing guru, Victor was inspired by Star Wars in the cinema when he was a child, and went on to acquire his first professional job as a graphic artist at the age of 16. Victor started his career in the film industry as a photographer and digital compositing artist. He then work on collaborations as 2D technical director and consultant where developed a fine combination of both artistic and technical understanding of film postproduction and visual effects from a photorealistic point of view. Today he designs and oversees the process creation of feature film visual effects as VFX Supervisor.

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ECHO | CGI & Compositing from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

ECHO is a story told in only 5 long-takes, all against green-screen with motion control not just for the main action but also for the mirror that is in the frame. We had one camera mounted on a high-precision motion control robot filming the image that is presented in the live action, and another camera mounted on a high-speed Cinebot for the reflection in the mirror, both shooting at the same time, all in one take.

The plot involves a girl interacting with a mirror in which her reflection is visibly a few seconds ahead in the future, or in the past. Her actions serve as both reactions and triggers using a continuous line of time making her interact with herself. 5 Scenes, each scene in one shot for a total runtime of seven minutes and twenty two seconds.

It was challenging to film the right contrast ratios and the lights in the right position to work for both cameras facing each other while getting the right amount of uniform green back to pull a good key from it, lighting from two directions and matching the background relative luminance with a lighting setup that was stablished by the live action 3D-projected environment shot before principal photography for reference and pre-comp’d live on set during the shooting by using a real-time render engine for live previz.

The Time Displacement, the effect of having the action of the image in the mirror out of sync and at different speeds while keeping the angle of reflection coherent with the point of view of the main action was done physically in camera handled by the motion control system. Since we were doing highly precise speed-ramps for the camera movements shooting at high speeds we also needed to be able to synchronise the robots to the shooting frame rate and action of the camera accordingly, so we developed a program with an in-house algorithm using Frame Triggering where the motion control system generates a triggering pulse for every frame taken by the cameras so we knew the exact position and time where every frame was going to be recorded for the relative reflection angle of a certain point in time of the main camera.

The whole action with the actress was choreographed and rehearsed for weeks before the shooting while designing an organic evolution of the camera movements and styles by simulating real rigs or handheld shoulder mounts for an organic look and a feeling of transitional editing in camera. In order to keep the scale and position of the live action elements in relation to the 3D virtual world a projector was installed on the ceiling of the Studio to project on the floor the orthogonal top view of the 3D software handling the scene, the whole Studio was photometrically-accurate represented at 1:1 scale in 3D, live.

A total of 11,738 frames of CG at 3K resolution. This would had been impossible to craft without the mixture of Science, Technology and Art.

Victor Perez: Director / Visual Effects Supervisor

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The Making of the Virtual Cinematography of ECHO from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

ECHO is a story told in only 5 long-takes, all against green-screen with motion control not just for the main action but also for the mirror that is in the frame. We had one camera mounted on a high-precision motion control robot filming the image that is presented in the live action, and another camera mounted on a high-speed Cinebot for the reflection in the mirror, both shooting at the same time, all in one take.

The plot involves a girl interacting with a mirror in which her reflection is visibly a few seconds ahead in the future, or in the past. Her actions serve as both reactions and triggers using a continuous line of time making her interact with herself. 5 Scenes, each scene in one shot for a total runtime of seven minutes and twenty two seconds.

It was challenging to film the right contrast ratios and the lights in the right position to work for both cameras facing each other while getting the right amount of uniform green back to pull a good key from it, lighting from two directions and matching the background relative luminance with a lighting setup that was stablished by the live action 3D-projected environment shot before principal photography for reference and pre-comp’d live on set during the shooting by using a real-time render engine for live previz.

The Time Displacement, the effect of having the action of the image in the mirror out of sync and at different speeds while keeping the angle of reflection coherent with the point of view of the main action was done physically in camera handled by the motion control system. Since we were doing highly precise speed-ramps for the camera movements shooting at high speeds we also needed to be able to synchronise the robots to the shooting frame rate and action of the camera accordingly, so we developed a program with an in-house algorithm using Frame Triggering where the motion control system generates a triggering pulse for every frame taken by the cameras so we knew the exact position and time where every frame was going to be recorded for the relative reflection angle of a certain point in time of the main camera.

The whole action with the actress was choreographed and rehearsed for weeks before the shooting while designing an organic evolution of the camera movements and styles by simulating real rigs or handheld shoulder mounts for an organic look and a feeling of transitional editing in camera. In order to keep the scale and position of the live action elements in relation to the 3D virtual world a projector was installed on the ceiling of the Studio to project on the floor the orthogonal top view of the 3D software handling the scene, the whole Studio was photometrically-accurate represented at 1:1 scale in 3D, live. A total of 11,738 frames of CG at 3K resolution. This would had been impossible to craft without the mixture of Science, Technology and Art.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Directing from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about directing Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Directing from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about directing Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Directing from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about directing Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Story from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about the story behind Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Crew from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about the people involved in the filming process of Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Cinematography from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about the process of creating cinematography of Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE. Cinematographer: Matthew Cooke

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Cast from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about the cast of Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE. Featuring Maria Ruiz, Nigel Barber, Maite Jauregui and Charlie Frost.

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The Making of ANOTHER LOVE Music & Sound from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Featurette about the process of creating the sound palette of Victor Perez's short film ANOTHER LOVE. Music by Piernicola di Muro Sound Design by Matteo Di Simone Re-Recording Mix by Garreth Llewellyn

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Another Love Short Film - Official Trailer from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

The trailer from Victor Perez's ANOTHER LOVE. In Film Festivals Only. anotherlovefilm.com

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Masked Frame Pictures - Logo from Masked Frame Pictures on Vimeo.

Masked Frame Pictures Logo accompanying Victor Perez's film ANOTHER LOVE