Lighting Work from "The BFG"

Jan 22, 2017 • 1 like

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.
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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
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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.