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Fluid Pictures created high quality VFX for the entirety of Andrew Marr’s History Of The World<\/a>, the latest landmark factual series from the BBC.<\/p>\n

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The effects Fluid created spanned 70,000 years and spread across the globe. Techniques used ranged\u00a0from full CGI environments, digital matte paintings and creating and \u00a0compositing CG digital\u00a0crowd replication to water effects, CG trees and a CG town – covering in all over fifty different characters and stories.<\/p>\n

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Fluid Pictures worked closely with the production team for a year, shooting in South Africa and then creating the VFX.\u00a0The VFX Supervisor for Fluid Pictures on the series was Jonathan Alenskas and the VFX Producer Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Zambra. The Producers for the BBC were Renny\u00a0Bartlett, Neil Rawles, Robin Dashwood, Mark Radice, David Vincent and Guy\u00a0Smith. The series producer was Kathryn Taylor and Exec. Producer Chris Granlund.<\/p>\n

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“The process started in June with Jono [Alenskas]creating concept boards with Hero Concepts based in Cape Town,” recalls Fluid’s co-founder\/c0-owner Dave Throssell. “The whole production team then moved to South Africa and the shoot lasted for four months. The footage was shot on Arri Alexa over a multitude of locations. The directing duties out there were performed by Renny Bartlett, Neil Rawles and Robin Dashwood.”<\/p>\n

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Robin Dashwood recalls a typical example of how VFX came to the aid of the production: “Budgetary considerations meant we had to make a limited number of performers seem like many more – a crowd of 15 often had to stand in for a crowd of 1500. The magic of computer graphics often filled in the missing 1485 \u2013 but it was always a challenge.”<\/p>\n

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“The production team returned in December 2011 to start editing,” says Throssell. “The visual effects effort started in January, [encompassing] a team of seven compositors running Nuke and After Effects, a team of eight CG artists led by Adrian Wyer, a digital matte painter, I\/O and VFX producer Therese Zambra.<\/div>\n
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“The biggest problem was that there was very little duplication of assets,” continues Throssell. “There were many stories that needed to be worked on and each needed a different time period, characters and locations, so every build was bespoke. The various CG elements were tracked in Shotgun and passed from team to team via Fluid’s new Warp Core server, with both Nuke and Mental Ray frames rendered on Fluid’s farm.”<\/p>\n

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Charting the history of the world, \u00a0the series is written and presented by Andrew Marr<\/a>. It reaches its mid-point \u00a0on BBC One this Sunday as it moves from Vikings and Huns to the discovery of the New World.<\/p>\n

Visit Fluid Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n

See more about the series on the BBC website\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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