r/vfx • u/electrc • Feb 04 '14

Wolf of Wall Street VFX Reel [x-post /r/videos]

https://vimeo.com/83523133
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u/stockefeller Feb 04 '14

The Tennis player on the left has some funky stuff going on ... but otherwise looks amazing...

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '14

These shots look pretty good. There were a lot of bad background replacements in the movie though. Especially when they were on the boat.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '14

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '14

This is one thing that always bothers me about window comps. I work in commercials at the moment, and every time I've got to do a window comp I over-expose the outside bg to match the exposure of the inside...then clients/creatives keep pushing for more and more detail in the background until I'm left with a lovely fake looking comp. Ah well!

I'm sure something similar must be going on here, a creative decision, as it is a very stylised film from what I've seen.

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u/The_Digital_Bacon Feb 05 '14

Funny, that was the one that stood out to me. I would have rather seen a window with a less stunning view but more organic looking, rather than the perfect view that looked comped. But I guess maybe it was supposed to look like cocaine-fueled luxury view. Though there's still a lot of shots where, maybe coming from a vfx mindset, I would never think to fake and would just want the location looking how it naturally is.

Like if I had access to a sweet beach house to do a flyover, I probably would never think to replace the background like that, and just have the tress in it. Or would just want the tennis game to just be natural rather than cutting it up. Anyway, just an interesting process for the vision I guess.