VFX supervisor joins the podcast to discuss making Big Time Rush’s music video for ‘Weekends’.
Today on the befores & afters podcast, we’re coving music video visual effects with visual effects supervisor Ryan Urban. He VFX supe’d the video via Nexodus for band Big Time Rush’s song ‘Weekends’, working with director Michael B Chait.
The video features a ‘ghost girl’ played by Jenna Koryn, and, as you’ll hear there were some interesting approaches to realizing that ghost effect. First, Jenna was painted silver for the on-location shoot by makeup artist Jamie Gasper. Then it turned to a number of comp techniques to extract her from the plate and create the outline and distorted look for her.
This episode is sponsored by fxphd.com. fxphd is having their only sale of the year this week, with 30% off fxphd memberships. fxphd has over 1700 hours training in almost 300 courses covering compositing, 3D, and more — including training in Nuke, Houdini, Unreal Engine and other applications.
All the courses are taught by vfx artists active in the field, bringing their own insights from their work on the job….as well as concentrating on the craft of visual effects and not the button pushing. Take your career to the next level. Check out fxphd.com.
Check out the podcast and the final video below, along with some fun behind the scenes images of the work and set stills from co-producer Ami Nicole.
