Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, South Korean monster movie The Host, directed by Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder), has been hailed not just for its engaging characters and clever storyline, but for the quality of its creature effects, which were handled in San Francisco by The Orphanage. Several Orphanage reps, including visual effects supervisor Kevin Rafferty, computer graphics supervisor Shadi Almassizadeh, and visual effects producer Arin Finger, traveled to Seoul in August 2005 to supervise plate photography on the film while the rest of the crew back home got to work on sorting out specifics of the creature model. They took their cues from the film’s creature designer, Jang Hee-chul, who sculpted a maquette at Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, that was used as a template.
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Why did you guys spend so little time on the fire effects at the end of the film? The creature was incredibly well realized, but something so relatively simple (well, at least it\'s been done a few hundred times) as fire - particularly at the end of the film - seems like a really bad place to cut corners.
Posted by T.M.Patrick on Sunday, March 18, 2007 @ 10:58 PM
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