Visual Effects making of James Bonds Skyfall : Bollywood News

We can control how gravity would affect the falling debris

Shedding light on the VFX of the Merlin Helicopter crash, Arundi says, We had a meeting with head VFX supervisor of the film Steve Begg, and it was decided that our approach would be to shoot a 1:3 miniature scale of the lodge, the ranch, the Merlin helicopter and the Aston Martin DB 5 at Long Cross Studios, London. Within this sequence, we see a helicopter crash into a lodge, within these shots; Steve wanted to show the roto blade of the helicopter to slice through the faÃ§ade of the building. For this we recreated a CG version of the lodge which broke into pieces, using MPC propriety destruction tool, Kali. It allows us to destroying objects and controls the forces; when the roto blades cut into the building, we can control how gravity would affect the falling debris and how far it would fly out when hit. Kali gives us the control on how materials would behave. This was shot at 50 frames per second (FPS), the action that would follow was to be a bit slower, with this we adjusted the gravity to get the desired effect. Talking about recreating the Scottish Highlands Arundi adds, Our in-house photographer James Kelly shot panoramic images of the mountain ranges in the upper highlands of Scotland. With the images we got back as references we had over 200 shots to recreate the environment. So we recreated a 360 degree digital environment, in which we built the mountains around the lodge and card layered the mountain in the background. We could scale the mountains as we needed depending on the shots; this environment had to work through the day and night time.

Visual Effects making of James Bond's Skyfall