MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
For Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express, it was impossible to schedule the mega-star cast for location shoots in New Zealand. Because the cast could not fly to location, meandering skylines and winding landscapes were transported to Longcross Film Studios in Greater London via video playback on giant LED walls.
C L I E N T
20th Century Studios
P R O D U C E R
VER
V F X W O R K F L O W
Sensel Studio
D I S G U I S E S P E C I A L I S T
Sensel Studio
BRIEF
Green screen was unsuitable for shots featuring the cast inside the Orient Express, because the train set’s reflective surfaces were prone to green spill and posed a challenge for post-production. The VFX department required footage to be sequenced, mapped, and composited on-set to look and feel believable in-camera.
WORKFLOW
Sensel Studio assisted VER to help deliver a 360° enhanced environment. Playing two 8K plates on two 90x40 foot LED walls, outputting 24 frames per second, in real-time.
Sensel Studio, Seven Three, and Jkey Tech engineered a workflow enabling content to be re-composed without re-rendering, by generating a system of perspective and spherical maps in disguise.
SUMMARY
Over the eight week shoot period Sensel Studio, Seven Three, and Jkey Tech crafted hundreds of compositions, and mappings were keyframed on-the-fly to match cameras in position, rotation, and field of view. Every composition was tailored to provide the VFX department with shots that looked and felt believable on-set and in-camera.
