RED Dwarf | Back to Earth





IMDB credit
Project: RED Dwarf back to earth - Three part sci-fi mini series for TV
Studio: Doug Naylor / fxphd
My role: Look Development, Roto, Compositing
Tools used: Digital Fusion, Particular, Chaoscope

Red Dwarf is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, and doesn't mind taking their science fiction with a grain of salt. Movie Trailer



Working with Sydney effects house FIN design on virtual sets, 18 Special-ops members delivered 262 shots to the production over a 27 day period, for the three-part mini-series - "The quality of the shots we produced is outstanding for a TV episodic" says visual effects supervisor Mike Seymour, who also served as 2nd unit director on the project.

'Kryton' and Mike Seymour

Collaborative Film Making
All vfx shots where done remote, with crew members sitting all over the world - Sweden, China, USA, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Denmark, Netherlands, UK, India, Mexico and Australia

To manage the project with members spread all over the world, we used Shotrunner, an online web application for vfx project management.

VFX breakdown of shot DCE_2_3418


Before and after comp of a scene in the cargo bay







Early previz I did of the Dimension Cutter in the cargo bay


Click here to see the look developments I did for the Dimension Cutter / Worm Hole.







>Links:
Danish article about my work on dwarf
Fxguide article: Red on Red & the vfx
Full cast and crew list
BBC Breakfast TV interview

Behind the scene video
More videos
RED Dwarf homepage
Danish article about my work on 'Dwarf'