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    Arun Ram-Mohan
    Technical Director
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    Lighting Work from "The BFG"

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    While working at Weta Digital in New Zealand on Disney's film "The BFG," I had the... Read more
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      The BFG
      Senior Lighting TD
      For this shot, I had to match Sophie's onset lighting, change the jar light colors to make her colored lights more plausible, and work my way outward from there to create environment lighting that emphasized the scale of the cave.
    • 0:16-0:22
      The BFG
      Senior Lighting TD
      After we finished the film, this shot was repurposed for a VR experience that followed Sophie down the hallway with all the jars, as referenced in this article:
      hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/vrla-virtual-reality-startups-debut-917824
    • 0:32-0:39
      This shot features an extensive tilt and pan, so the challenge here was to animate the lights and gobos in the rig so as to match Sophie's onset lighting throughout.

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