TV Series
True Detective: Night Country
Cinesite
Mysterious disappearances and weird phenomena set the scene for season 4 of True Detective: Night Country. Set in the chilly permanent “night country” of Alaska, much of Cinesite’s VFX serve to enhance the haunting atmosphere at the heart of the series.
The mysterious series opening sequence was one of our most challenging – a herd of caribou are startled by an invisible danger, jumping over an ice cliff. Plates were filmed on a glacier in Iceland, but we ultimately replaced almost everything in the sequence digitally, except for the hunter. The herd of caribou were particularly challenging. Seen extremely close up, they needed to be convincingly real, from subtle behaviours to anatomy and distinctive fur.
Other VFX included an unsettling one-eyed polar bear, weather effects and environments throughout the series.
Crew
VFX Supervisor – Simon Stanley-Clamp
Animation Supervisors – Simon Wottge, Neil Glasbey
CG & Workflow Supervisor – Samir Ansari
CG Supervisor – Manuel Reyes
2D Supervisor – Sabine Janetzka
Senior Animators – Sagar Katara, Guliz Demiray, Julien Chery
Animators – Marko Pazin, Audrey Melancon, Alex Alvarez, Jose Ramirez
Lead Rigging TD – Karen Halliwell
Senior CFX TDs – Nicolò Piccinini, Michele Fabbro, Amandine Claude
CFX TD – William Lorenzetti
Senior Groom TD – Anja Højmose
Senior Rigging TD – Nazmi Yazici
Creature TD – Pascal Chaplais
Crowd Artists – Charles Masse, Choongman Lee
Junior Animator – Clair Jones
Software
3D Equaliser, Nuke, Silhouette, Maya, Houdini, Gaffer, Arnold, Tractor, Ftrack, HP Remote Graphics
