TV Series
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
REALTIME
VFX Studio REALTIME joined Sky & Peacock Original's limited series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth as VFX partner. The series, starring award-winning actor Colin Firth, is based on the 1988 Lockerbie disaster and the search for justice by Dr Jim Swire and his wife Jane. REALTIME's VFX team supported on the shoot; helping to scout locations, plan key sequences and use our new proprietary virtual production tool to help the crew “see” digital elements on set. The tool was developed alongside the show, with funding from Greater Manchester’s Media City Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub. REALTIME provided invisible FX work to help portray the scope of the disaster through several scenes in the opening episodes, including the foreboding ‘coffee cup’ sequence. In this sequence, the audience sees a teaspoon landing on the roof of a police car, signalling the start of the plane’s descent over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Around seventy-five percent of the series’ visual effects were crafted for episode one.
CREW
VFX Supervisor – Sue Land
Head of Film and Episodic – Jonathan Rawlinson
CG supervisor – Stephen Henry
Senior VFX Producer – Fiona York
Production Co-Ordinator – Niamh Lawson
On set supervisor – Jack George
VFX Editor – Shannon Moran
Production Assistant – Abby Wright
Production Manager – Georgina Lowes
Previs artist – Chris Lewis
Previs artist – Harry Barnes
Lead Layout artist – Matt Burn
Layout artist – Dan Baddley
Asset Lead – Daniel Baiton
Modeller – Louie Crick
Modeller – Matthew Kent Baldwin
Modeller - Richard Goodchild
Rigging TD – Bobby McCune
Animation Supervisor – Jonathon Tyler
Lead Animator – John Batchelor
Animator – Lukas Gecas
Animator – James Hickey
Lead FX Artist – Graham Collier
Senior FX Artist – Adrian Vickers
FX artist – Sebastien Tafani
FX artist – Florence Richer
FX artist – Agustin Schilling
FX artist – Dan Lloyd Wood
Lead Lighter – Joe Worthington
Lighter -Chris Debski
Look Dev – Chris Wilson Ferry
Concept Artist – Christoph Unger
Sequence Lead – James Coore
Comp Supervisor – Ivelina Dobreva
Senior Compositor – Aoife Greenham
Compositor - Nikolay Kolev
Compositor - Ned Baker
Compositor - Illi Gardner
Compositor - John Warburton
Compositor - Lucia Paris Millan
Compositor - Nathan Stobbs
Compositor - Nic Durber
SOFTWARE
PV tool ( working title )
Using Unreal and working on an iPad ( using proprietary software to present the user with a more production friendly GUI )
For Post
Unreal Engine for the PV Tool, Maya for modelling and animation, Houdini for lighting and FX. Nuke for compositing.