'Singularity' fashion movie

[Benni Diez]

Recently I was involved in a little low budget affair. I was a thesis project for a design student, kind of a fashion movie for an independent clothing line..
She developed the concept together with the DoP. Then I came on board as an editor and VFX supervisor and added a little sci-fi twist to the concept.

Shot on Red One MX with red primes in 3k 50p for the most part.
Edited in Premiere.
Conformed, pregraded and converted to EXR with Redcine X.
All the effects work and final grading done in After Effects.
CG elements modeled and rendered in 3dsmax.

Here's the final short film:

And here's the VFX making of:

Director: Marissa Maghavipata
Cinematoghraphy: Stefan Preilowski
Music: Georg Rohbeck
Sound Design: Tilman Hahn
Editing & Visual Effects: Benni Diez

It was a great experience, mainly because it was not for commercial purpose and therefore there were no creative restrictions.
When everyone gives their best, although there's no budget and no profit to gain from a project, there's a truly special feeling when all comes together in the end, that you rarely have on regular jobs.

 

[Henk van den Doel]

Beautiful work.

 

[David Rasberry]

Very nice mood piece.

 

[christopher witzke]

wow

 

[Detlev Eller]

... sweeet ... ´n cool (!)

 

[Benni Diez]

thanks guys! btw, if anyone needs a vfx one man army for an interesting project, drop me a message. i'm available on a freelance basis, worldwide.

 

[Kacey Baker]

Shot on Red One MX with red primes

Why do Red Primes have such a bad name (based on many of this site's posts) when this footage looks beautiful and stunning.

 

[Benni Diez]

Why do Red Primes have such a bad name (based on many of this site's posts) when this footage looks beautiful and stunning.

well, they don't seem to have as unique a look as some of the high end traditional cinema lenses. that being said, they are fast, sharp and pristine, and that's what you want for an effects-heavy project like this.

 

[TonySegreto]

Looks amazing. Benni has it right about the RPP.

Love the post RPP flare haha, nice touch. Looks great!

 

[Evan Boymel]

Benni - Looks amazing man.

And yes, I may be new to the Red User community, but I love my RPP lenses. I think they do the job just fine.

Keep shooting!

 

[Mark Allen]

Really nice work. On everyone's part too, it's a great spot.

 

[John Bannister]

Benni, wow great work mate, looks incredible. I checked out your other VFX stuff....fun as hell and pretty damn seamless. I am a budding AE compositor, if you ever get done this way, let's have a beer, I would love to rack your brains. Again...sweet work Benni, inspiring.

 

[Tom Lowe]

WOW, this is super great!!

 

[Erwin Vanderhoydonks]

WOW.
If you don't look at the making of you think WOW nice location, great light. Even a broken security camera.
But the special effects are so great. Color adjustment are very good and smooth.
The last scene is well done. You just think how the hell did they get up there...
Thanks for sharing both movies.

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

That last matte painting was crazy!

 

[Ed David]

Looks stunning. Love it very much. Can you tell us about filtration you used? Such a beautiful dreamlike feel.

 

[Benni Diez]

thank you guys!
no filtration, just clean red images.
then applied jim's nice pregrade preset in redcine x and exported as exr sequences.
all the rest was done in after effects. some curves and exposure tweaking, some masked cyan filters, magic bullet 3-strip, vignetting, and lens flares.
btw: the matte painting consists almost entirely of photos from cologne, germany

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Benni, your name just went into my Rolodex. Nice work!

 

[Luc Bouvrette]

That's pretty stunning, Benni, beautifully paced! Love the mood.

 

[Russ Campbell]

Incredibly beautiful.