Z-Effects Blog

So in the last week and a half, I’ve had 2 things I worked on go to air. the first is a Muisc video I worked on at Hydraulx By the R&B Super Star USHER. The Music video is for the song Moving Mountains, his second single of his new album. The entire thing was shot over the span of 4 days along with the first music video for this album Love in this Club. It’s all Green screen and great set design. A ton of roto and rig removal was needed though for shots in the rain where he’s climbing the mountain, and in the beginning when he’s walking through the burnt out club. I’m working on getting footage for my reel, so hopefully we can see some shots of that soon. I worked on the shots of Usher falling off the cliff, as well as a few of the mid shots when he’s on his knees on the top of the mountain. There are also about half a dozen of the club shots I either did work on, or as working on when they were finished by the lead compositor/editor on the smoke. Some of the shots got up to 80 masks when i was working on them for still objects alone. Detail in the rebar etc. This low quality flash video is all I can find for now.

The second Item is from a few shots I got called to work on over at ZOIC on the CBS show Criminal Minds. I have 4 shots in this sequence. Mainly the wide shots (perspective not from beneath) of the main actor (the officer) when He jumps the buildings. also the wider of the shots looking up when the bad guy (bald white guy) falls off the building. There was some hard core wire rig removal going on here, grips and cord wranglers as well as full on scaffold parts of the rig crossing buildings and sky etc.
Tabula Rasa highlights

Enjoy guys. I’m pretty excited about it all!

-Zander