{"id":9504,"date":"2014-06-18T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firedbydesign.com\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2014-06-18T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:44:34","slug":"edge-tomorrow-mpc-cinesite-make-last-day-misery-tom-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firedbydesign.com\/?p=9504","title":{"rendered":"Edge of Tomorrow: MPC and Cinesite make last day a misery for Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Cruise spends his last day\u00a0in peril in Edge of Tomorrow<\/em><\/a>, courtesy of VFX from MPC and Cinesite.<\/p>\n

The futuristic thriller follows soldier Cage (Cruise), who is caught\u00a0in a\u00a0time loop on his last day of a battle against aliens. The film was directed\u00a0by Doug Liman, with visual effects supervision by Nick Davis.<\/p>\n

Cinesite’s major VFX action sequence places Cage in an indoor combat training range, fighting a robot Mimic to hone his battle\u00a0skills.\u00a0\u00a0Gradually,\u00a0through the repetition of his many deaths and the tuition of Rita (Emily\u00a0Blunt), Cage\u2019s skills improve until we finally see that he has\u00a0become a deadly\u00a0fighter.\u00a0\u00a0In total, the Mimic kills Cage\u00a015 brutal, bone-crunching times as it smashes into him.<\/p>\n

The Mimic was created entirely in CG by Cinesite, with\u00a0visual effects supervision by Simon Stanley-Clamp and animation direction by\u00a0Eamonn Butler.\u00a0\u00a0Various motion studies\u00a0and versions were created, all exploring how it might travel; it needed to move\u00a0in straight lines, as\u00a0though traversing a ceiling grid, in a jerky, mechanical\u00a0way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge was to capture\u00a0the energy and\u00a0dynamic speed of the fight,\u201d said Stanley-Clamp. \u201cSo technical considerations like how\u00a0quickly the Mimic would spin and how much motion blur it would give off\u00a0were very\u00a0important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also important was getting\u00a0the design of the Mimic right.\u00a0\u201cThe range\u00a0environment is like the inside of an massive industrial hanger,\u201dadded Stanley-Clamp.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIn keeping with this, I wanted the surface\u00a0to resemble a\u00a0beaten up, rusted\u00a0yellow cab.\u00a0\u00a0When the Mimics break they\u00a0are\u00a0mended crudely, with new parts roughly bolted on; bumps and scratches\u00a0remain visible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0finished fast-paced sequence, there is seamless interaction between Cage and\u00a0the Mimic, which establishes a convincing sense of\u00a0agility and danger.<\/p>\n

Simon\u00a0Stanley-Clamp and his 70 strong team also worked on several other key sequences\u00a0in the film, in total completing 189 shots in the\u00a0final cut.\u00a0\u00a0Their range of work included adding a full CG\u00a0military encampment to Horseguards Parade, complete with CG tents, military\u00a0vehicles, refugee and military digidoubles, as well as several other\u00a0environment enhancements and replacements throughout the film.<\/p>\n

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MPC\u00a0creates alien mayhem<\/h4>\n

Lead by VFX Supervisor Gary Brozenich and DFX Supervisor Matt Middleton, who worked closely with Nick Davis, MPC delivered the finale sequence which follows Tom Cruise’s character under the water to destroy the alien ‘Omega’.<\/p>\n

In the sequence, Cage is integrated with a CG submerged Louvre car-park environment and the alien ‘Alpha’ which follows him under water, ripping through the already partially destroyed concrete structure of the car park. \u00a0An underwater tank shoot provided the plates of Cage for the majority of the sequence, with a number of the wider shots using a Cage digidouble.<\/p>\n

The Alpha creature consisted of thousands of segments, which forms its numerous limbs, all controlled using a mixture of procedural and hand animation by MPC\u2019s animation team.<\/p>\n

The CG underwater environment was fully modelled, textured and displaced to provide the detail and parallax required as the camera descends quickly through narrow concrete passages. Prman was used throughout for the rendering of the environments, creatures and FX.<\/p>\n

A number of FX simulations using both Maya fluids and Flowline were created for the water surface, plankton and subsequent dust and debris impacts. The destruction of the Omega’s core was created using both filmed material and CG. The explosive elements were specifically shot in a glass tank and shot at a high frame rate using a Phantom camera. They were combined with a number of FX elements which were simulated in Maya and Flowline, including bubbles, rolling dust clouds and debris.<\/p>\n

The ink-like fluid that initiates Cage\u2019s last time loop was simulated using Maya fluids. It was designed to have a realistic ink dynamic whilst having sentience, as the fluid gradually encapsulates Cage. Specific ink elements were filmed at MPC for the final shot of the film, which sees the fluid travel along Cage\u2019s face and blacks out his eyes. This shot used a combination of Maya Fluids and the filmed ink elements.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0fight simulator game that follows the Cinesite sequence in the film is online<\/a>, on the Apple App Store<\/a>\u00a0and the Android Play Store<\/a><\/p>\n

View more work by MPC on Fired By Design<\/a><\/p>\n

View more work by Cinesite on Fired By Design<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit Cinesite<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit MPC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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