Believe it or not, Wes Anderson does not attain his notorious vintage color palettes and retro set designs through use of a time machine. LOOK Effects, the VFX company that worked on the auteur's latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, recently released a time-lapse video that details the behind-the-scenes video effects mastery that helped bring the director's vision to life.The five-minute clip offers insight into a wide variety of techniques used during the pre-and-post production of the recent Hungarian epic: color-correcting, removing film dollies to yield the typical Andersonian pan-shots, as well as the 3D-modeling and green-screen processes needed for various action sequences.
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LOOK Effects' supervisor, Gabriel Sanchez, also gave an even more in-depth explanation of the team's work on Grand Budapest in a feature on Animation World Network which can be read here.Look Effects also worked on Anderson's 2012 film, Moonrise Kingdom, as well as a litany of other big-budget Hollywood films. Below, see the VFX essential in making a Wes Anderson film, well, look like a Wes Anderson film.
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