Visual Effects Compositing and Animation | VFX | Motion Graphics Production
Lubbock, Abilene, West Texas, and Nationwide
Visual Effects Compositing or VFX is an area of the film industry that we have a LOT of passion about. You see visual effects every day whether it’s in your favorite movie or just in tiktok or snapchat videos you see. Visual effects (VFX) are any special effects added to a film using a computer; you might think of visual effects compositing as “photoshopping” your video footage. VFX typically combines live-action footage and manipulated or enhanced imagery to create realistic environments and characters. The main goal of VFX is to take something fake and make it look real, or at least believable.
Visual Effects Compositing Reel - Hamil Bros Studios
There are many facets to visual effects compositing! The most obvious are adding explosions and 3D characters, or generating scenes that could otherwise not be shot in real life such as sci-fi space battle scenes. Some of the lesser known uses of visual effects are things like removing unwanted trash or objects from a scene. Everyone remembers the Starbucks cup in the last season of Game of Thrones, right?
Learning from the Hollywood Visual Effects Experts
Since 2006, we have been following industry leaders in the visual effects realm and have not only studied with them but become friends with some of them.
At the top of the list is visual effects compositing wizard, Stu Maschwitz. His work includes Mission Impossible, Twister, Star Wars, and Sin City. Stu is the Chief Creative Officer at Red Giant. He is also gracious enough to listen to help us troubleshoot our visual effects compositing software when we push it to the limits and listen to feature requests or new ideas.
In addition to Stu and his amazing book, “The DV Rebel’s Guide”, we have taken courses from Gareth Edwards (Rogue One; Godzilla [2010]) and Andrew Kramer (Video Copilot; Star Wars: Episode VII; Star Trek [2009]), along with a myriad of visual effects compositing tutorials from The Action Movie Dad.
We have the expertise in taking visual, computer generated elements and compositing them into your final shot to make the audience believe it’s part of the scene. This compositing process is what bridges the gap between reality and imagination! It’s putting this robot and his ship in an empty lot for Affinity Steel and making sure he looks like he blends into the shot.
We have proficient experience in Adobe After Effects and we’re ready to tackle your project. Whether it’s removing unwanted cables out of a shot or setting your building on fire, we’ve got what it takes.
Adding the impossible
Whether it’s blowing up a car on a budget or making animals talk, visual effects compositing gives you endless possibilities for doing things that you simply cannot get in camera.
Subtle enhancements
Visual effects aren’t always grandiose. They can also be simple enhancements to a scene. If your band is wanting to shoot a performance video and not many people show up, the crowd can be added in. The energy that a large crowd adds to the video is immense, and no one will even know.
A Whole New World
Sometimes, the location you need doesn’t pan out. With visual effects compositing, you can easily have mountains added to your background or, with a lot of elbow grease, a whole room built around your character. In this case, the sky is not the limit.
Eliminating problems
Visual effects compositing isn’t just adding things to a scene. Sometimes it’s removing things or even people. There have been plenty of times that we’ve needed to remove stickers from a laptop, a dumpster from a parking lot, or even a facial blemish that inconveniently arrived on the shoot day.