Grant HewlettProduction VFX Supervisor & Producer

Work

Early Man

2018

Role
In-house CG Supervisor
Scope
Feature film, 14 months, 700 shots. Hundreds of assets and FX, digital doubles. Sole vendor.
Client
Aardman / StudioCanal
Director
Nick Park
Locations
Bristol, UK

My contribution

I led the CG team from bidding through to final delivery. Having worked at Aardman, we knew how they liked to work and adapted our collaboration to their evolving artistic style. As sole vendor we built dozens of digital doubles of the footballers, the stadium, and a range of large and medium-scale FX.

I supervised a lot of the on-set tracking, photogrammetry and lidar for what proved to be some tricky line-ups. It is always an honour to work with such a great team of creatives, and in particular to see Nick Park in action.

Awards and nominations

Film

Breakdown reel

Behind the scenes

Flying ducksSet and crowd extensionLava setup20,000 puppetsPuppet digital doublesCrowd extensionsLava puppets