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GRÖNALUND SNAKE

Björn Benckert

Björn Benckert

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Client web version. (The above is only for cinema) apparently 19:9 crop from widescreen and subtitles is how its done these days... "Noboby watch with audio any more" is what they say... I want to prove them wrong ofcourse so please click this Youtube link. Make it look like the whole world wants to ride snake, the womit comet.:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-rYXRb2xa0
 
Nick Morrison said:
This is amazing. Bjorn you're my hero.

Shot on Monstro and your vintage Anamorphic lenses of legend?
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Thank for those kind words.

I really wish that was the case. I was actually planing to use "the lenses fo ledgend" for this one, Even put it in the treatment, old retro look etc, but sadly they just did not make it home in time for the shoot. So had to grab second best which was some Master Anas, they work well but would have been way more fun using the real deal.

And a bit crazy, its actually 5 different cameras used as things where a bit hectic, only had a few hours in the park before opening when we could shoot.

Monstro
Epic dragon
Gopro
DJI 6k
DJI Mavic II Hassleblad.

Some of them are more easy to spot than others but think they all match up quite well with some old soggy 70´s look on top of it all. :)


The print is also combo cameras... I actually shot that with my mavic II and then a greenscreen plate for the boat / people with monstro and sigma. Then poke the snake in there in post. The mavic shooting 360 gets really really good. Sadly I forgot to click in raw so all was jpg but still holds up really well. Here is a different grade.

clean snake by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

The trick is they need it for all different formats so delivering a psd file where all is in layers and can be rearranged, snake resized etc.

SNAKE_MASTER_1_1 by Björn Benckert, on Flickr
 
Bjorn,


This looks amazing Bjorn! The ability to create something that didn't exist before from nothing ls truly a gift.
 
Bjorn,


Thanks for the behind the scenes! I was referring to how you created such a realistic giant snake from a blank project from within whatever computer program you used to make it and blend the multiple components of this images together into what we see here.
 
rand thompson said:
Bjorn,


Thanks for the behind the scenes! I was referring to how you created such a realistic giant snake from a blank project from within whatever computer program you used to make it and blend the multiple components of this images together into what we see here.
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Can't take credit for the actual CG snake. I was only dumb enough to toss the idea, then I'm lucky enough to have the best 3D dudes possible on staff so no matter what kind of deep hole I dig myself into so far they always managed to pull me back out. A film like this would fall flat without their magic. But except 3D I did alot, no joke. Wrote the script, storyboarded, did the preprod casting etc, then produced, DoP:ed, directed, edited, did the flame work, did the grade and even wrote the stupid copy and got some guy in the states to read it for me over the web... the strangely filtered old microphone sound of the voice is actually me running it out trough a shitty PC speaker and recording it back onto my hydrogen phone into the memo app. Just to get that right analog distorted kind of 70 wibe to it.

So those that say hydrogen can't be used for professional work are wrong. It distort sound much better than the most expensive Protool plugins. ;)

Here is the before/after. A favorite shot is when Mattias my CG champ is acting stand in for the snake and snatch the cutton candy out of the kids hand.

 
Björn Benckert said:
Can't take credit for the actual CG snake. I was only dumb enough to toss the idea, then I'm lucky enough to have the best 3D dudes possible on staff so no matter what kind of deep hole I dig myself into so far they always managed to pull me back out. A film like this would fall flat without their magic. But except 3D I did alot, no joke. Wrote the script, storyboarded, did the preprod casting etc, then produced, DoP:ed, directed, edited, did the flame work, did the grade and even wrote the stupid copy and got some guy in the states to read it for me over the web... the strangely filtered old microphone sound of the voice is actually me running it out trough a shitty PC speaker and recording it back onto my hydrogen phone into the memo app. Just to get that right analog distorted kind of 70 wibe to it.

So those that say hydrogen can't be used for professional work are wrong. It distort sound much better than the most expensive Protool plugins. ;)

Here is the before/after. A favorite shot is when Mattias my CG champ is stand in for the snake and snatch the cutton candy out of the little girls hand. .

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Bjorn


Watching the "how it was done" video you put together above was really eye opening!

You see so many computer programs that try to replace or make some aspect of the creative cinematic process easier or nonexistent. However, nothing can replace a talented group of creative hardworking people working together to achieve a common goal.
 
Found these on the server with all the lens and camera info. Was planing to shoot it mostly on monstro but as time was so tight I simply did not manage to swap it from gimbal to tripod so most dragon shots in there. Had a lot of B roll from monstro / ronin on a 75mm ANA that looked really nice. But as the edit was so tight / preplaned I did not have time in the edit to push any of it in. The colors of the shots does not really say much. Some with Ipp2 here and some with what ever dragon had in camera. But all was Ipp2 Redwide gamut to linear 16 bit EXR for VFX and then back to RWGRGB for doing the final grade. But yes, dragon was slightly green its lowlights in comparison. Even if thats not the complete truth as I also had a stack of my old Tiffen ND´s infront of it so that possibly also had some play. And the DJI cams where also with rather poor ND´s but balanced that out later. The little drone had a bit of light/lamp filter plastic behind its protective glas... not the best option possibly :)


SHOT001_Monstro_MP ANA 50mm_Ronin by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT002_Monstro_MP ANA 50mm Ronin by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT003_DJI 6k_Drone by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT004_Epic Dragon MP Ana 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT005_Epic Dragon MP ANA 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT006_Epic Dragon MP ANA 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT007_Epic Dragon MP ANA 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT008_Epic Dragon MP ANA 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT009_Epic_Dragon MP ANA 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT010_Epic Dragon MP ANA 50mm Tripod by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT011_GOPRO7 AND MavicII Background Helmut cam small drone by Björn Benckert, on Flickr

SHOT012_DJI_6k stretched Drone by Björn Benckert, on Flickr
 
Bjorn,


Great to see the Raw Edits to see the way it looked before grading and how you tied it all together with a grade in post. I also liked the previsualization drawings of the poster and the GRÖNALUND SNAKE ANIMATIC in the first post as well.
 
Amazing work and amazingly detailed BTS.... totally awesome. (I watched it all twice; on Vimeo, youtube, and the BTS and the teaser.)

Also can't get over how great the DJI 6k shots look...
 
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gundenen land? this must be a magical place.

very fun, great work, thanks for sharing!
 
Jeffery Anderson said:
gundenen land? this must be a magical place.

very fun, great work, thanks for sharing!
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He, he. yes a bit odd of a name. Grönalund means "Green Groves" in Swedish and is the name of this tivoli which is located in the middle of Stockholm on an island...The island is named "Kungliga Djurgården" translates to "Royal animal garden". Basically this little island which is only separated from town with a small canal. It was the accent kings hunting ground for deer. But lately the kings done their hunting else place and let up this part of the island to be used to amuse the peasants with a tivoli. :)

Its actually a really cool tivoli worth a visit as they are a bit cramped for space so in stead of spreading out they simply put lot of effort in to utilise the small dense space and got some cool tivoli design vibe to it all. But wish they where not so hard up not letting us in during open hours. Would love to shot it all at night but they did not let us. As during the summer sun is up 24/7 so it only dips into the horizon, we would have had a good 6 hours of magic our with sun touching the horizon. But no we where only let in early morning when sun was pretty much in zenit which is not as magical simply. :(

Here is a trailer for feature that was made about this tivoli. How it came about back when DP by Aril Wretblad on Alexa and Hawks I think. We did not work on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqlVOM0wLE
 
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