![]() ![]() For this shot that was added late in postproduction, Theron and Okonedo were filmed on a greenscreen stage entering a doorway. The sequence also included a shot in which the characters approach the entrance to the government complex, a crane move reveals another major CG environment. The elements were then combined with CG extensions and matte-paintings. The sharp grass effect was created first by animating CG grass in Houdini, and then, by compositing it into plate elements of the real stone garden location. Everything had to be based on organic material, rather than on hardware, which led to unique designs throughout the movie. This unusual device was part of the organic approach implemented by Kusama and production designer Andrew McAlpine for all Bregnas technology. These included grass that, upon contact, becomes as sharp as a razor blade. The government complex is surrounded by a no mans land equipped with unique security systems. The various layers were composited in Nuke with compositing supervisor Sonja Burchard overseeing the project. The images were then rendered out in RenderMan with some elements rendered in Houdinis Mantra. Using Maya, we built on top of it, added a giant compound in the background and many structures in the foreground. The plates were shot at an animal shelter in Berlin and this building later formed the basis of the environment. This included the sequence in which Aeon and Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) break into a government complex. What we did was to extend the real locations with matte-paintings, or incorporate real buildings into 3D environments. Interestingly for a futuristic movie, it features very few environmental effect shots, Prescott said. Initially, the entire project was awarded to Digital Domain where David Prescott and Jonathan Egstad supervised over 260 shots. Having found real locations to serve as a suitable backdrop for many scenes allowed Kusama to limit visual effects to a reasonable shot count. Indeed, a large part of the movie was shot on location in Berlin, Germany, in and outside many landmark Bauhaus-style buildings. She based the look of the city on the clear, unbroken lines of the Bauhaus architectural style. For Aeon Flux, director Karyn Kusama chose to portray Bregna as an organic world, one that is less hardware-driven. During the course of a mission, she unveils the hidden side of BregnaĪs always in a movie depicting our future world, the major challenge is to visualize it in a convincing and innovative way. One of them is Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron), a top assassin for the rebellion against Bregnas rulers. Some individuals, though, believe this perfect society is hiding a perfect lie. In this protected environment, the population lives a perfect life, completely isolated from the outside world. A deadly disease has wiped out the majority of earths population, except for one walled city, Bregna. ![]() ![]() 2) follows the same plot pattern, with a few twists of its own. Major feature films based on this theme include THX 1138 (1971), Logans Run (1976), Demolition Man (1993) and The Island (2005). Inevitably, the plot introduces characters living a perfect life in a perfect world, until one rogue individual uncovers the hidden truth behind this dream society. Utopian societies have always been a popular theme in science-fiction movies. Digital Domain supervised over 260 shots in Aeon Flux. ![]()
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