We acquired, edited, colored and completed VFX for this HBO comedy special cold open.
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Cold Open
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Underwater scene
Here’s a quick shot from an in-progress short film of ours: Created in only 1 hour with Blender and rendered with eevee. Some light compositing in Fusion. The only external asset used was a texture of a cliff face. Rough geometry was modeled to match the image, then it was duplicated into a tunnel formation. […]
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The Lighthouse – Creative LUT
Here’s another creative LUT, this time inspired by The Lighthouse. The Lighthouse was shot on black and white Kodak Double-X Film 5222, and used special filters made by Schneider Optics to give the film an orthochromatic look (wherein the black and white film is only sensitive to a very narrow band of the spectrum). Like […]
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Breaking down a VFX shot
We wanted to open part 2 of The Freeman Chronicles with the villain arriving at the scene with a fleet of humvees. However, there were no humvees on the day. So the scene was filmed knowing they would be added in post. To start, the shot required a high quality humvee asset. The humvee was […]
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Free creative LUT download!
Based on two-strip Technicolor from the 1930s. Inspired by Technicolor’s Process 3 used in classics such as The King of Jazz, this LUT converts your image into red/cyan primaries. The LUT was created by combining the G and B data into a single channel, then replacing the original channels with that result. Skin tones were […]
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VFX: Making Steaming Tarts
A 4 hour composite shot to give you an idea of what goes into making steaming tarts. Tracked in Syntheyes Simulated in Blender Composited in Fusion
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Sansar Commercial
Case Study Chariotdrive recently worked with the acclaimed Linden Lab who are responsible for the long running Second Life. Because of our unique process we were able to offer significanlty more content for the budget.
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Perimeter X
Motion graphic promo.
“I’ve not seen anything like your process in over 1000 episodes of TV. Technical combined with creatives in one space.” Amazon Originals – Post Supervisor What made our process successful?
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Wynn Residency
We composited, colored and onlined this video featuring all the top DJs.
Long running Half-Life series with millions views and over 10 million minutes watched.
Back at it with Dolby Laboratories! This time we had the privilege to shoot and edit an interview piece for the independent feature, Blindspotting, which premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival. It was granted the prestigious honor of the Dolby Atmos Family sound fellowship.
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Sonos and Apple Music Venture
Post production on this Sonos Apple music commercial.
The Freeman-Chronicles Turret Augmented Reality is live and available free for anyone to use, available on Facebook. Let us know what you think! Check it out HERE
We are delighted to have worked on the animation for the announce of Joey Graceffa’s third and final book in his New York Times best selling Eden series. This is our third year of creative work for each of the books in the series.
[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We shot this night time footage for a recent project with a DJI Mavic 2 Pro over the San Fernando Valley under lightly foggy conditions.
Earlier in the year, Chariotdrive finished the 3rd season of the YouTube Original Escape the Night Season Three. It was fantastic working with Adam Lawson (Director, Writer, and Showrunner), Joey Graceffa (Creator and Star) and Adam Polanger (Post Production Supervisor) again this season.
We went on over to VIDCON this year to give a talk on “How to product TV quality programming in an internet budget”. Part of our talk went into the specifics of the open style layout of our office which allows for a collaborative and inclusive style of Post Production.
A great time to be had by all at The BAFTA Garden. A sweltering day but yummy fare and fantastic company. Looking forward to next year.
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Five Star Editorial and Grade
We completed editorial, color grading, sound and finish on this Five Star commercial series for our friends at Havoc content.
We recently did pre-visualization on an Acura commercial in conjunction with The Reserve Label. Previs featured actual models and movement to scale using motion control rigs on a track.
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MTV: MGFX
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2D Animation: Motion Comic
At Chariotdrive we have done several simple animations based on 2D artwork over the years. This particular one was special as we moved away from Adobe After Effects and into Blackmagic Fusion. It makes setting up the different elements in 3D space quite easy and thus allows a great deal of flexibility in the project. […]
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AFI
We did VFX and color Grading on this little gem from female director Gandja Monteiro and The American Film Institute.
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World of Tanks
3 video launch series for the billion dollar mmo franchise by Wargaming.
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The Freeman Chronicles: Episode 2
End-to-end production and post production on the video game based series.
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Hardware
That’s how we can produce more for less and offer more creative options and savings to our partners.
This summer we competed post production on the second season of the Youtube Red show “Escape The Night Season 2”.
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Live Stream: Hasbro, D&D
Work Done: MGFX, Production, Live Stream Agency: Tripleclix Client: Wizzards of the Coast, Hasbro Chariotdrive was asked to produce and execute a live stream version of the Legendary and Hasbro web series Force Grey: Giant Hunters. This 6 camera event, recorded in front of a live audience was streamed to the internets from the marvelous Egyptian theater in Hollywood. […]
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Smart Software Top 10
We often wonder what productivity tools and software other creative types use. Click to view our list.
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Tabletop
Work Done: Grading, Quality Control Production Company: Legendary Client: Geek & Sundry Legendary Digital needed a fast and efficient color correction solution for the 20 episode season 4 run of the Geek & Sundry show. We delivered a series of looks and LUTs for all 20 episodes that were easily assimilated into their Adobe Premier work […]
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Adobe MAX 2016
Several of the Chariotdrive team went to San Diego this November to immerse ourselves in the Adobe MAX creativity conference.
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Better Call Saul
This series of spots for AMC was created by Imaginary Forces and Ian James Duncan was brought in as the live-action producer to produce the spots close to Los Angeles in Lancaster, CA. Check out some behind the scenes photos and video below.
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CSI Bank
3D titles titles and color grading for this CSI Bank spot.. Finished in UHD.
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Children of Eden
Visual effects and grading on content for Joey Graceffa’s best selling young adult novel “Children of Eden”.
This summer we competed post production on the first season of the Youtube Red show “Escape The Night”.
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Editorial and titles on this video for the Dolby Institute centered around the Indie film the Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
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Swiss Army Man
Dolby relies on us regularly to create content for both Dolby Labs and The Dolby Institute.
A production and editorial on a series of videos for the Dolby Institute’s Sound Fellowship.