LOOK Effects' Hollywood facility has wrapped its last shot for the television series Lost. LOOK, which worked on all of season six of Lost, completed more than 350 shots for the two-and-a-half-hour final episode that aired on May 23.

LOOK produced all of the effects for this final season of Lost. Over the course of eight months, the artists at LOOK completed more than 1,000 shots for 18 episodes, including everything from greenscreen composite shots to all-CG 3D sequences.

LOOK provided the Lost producers full-service visual effects that included an on-set visual effects supervisor, creative and cost-effective solutions for effects challenges, and an efficient and time-saving review process. This service continued through to LOOK providing edited effects sequences that were incorporated into the final episode, as well as into each episode throughout season six.

One of the most complex effects LOOK created for the last season of the series was the fully animated Smoke Monster. This was especially challenging because the character appeared in previous seasons. The producers allowed LOOK to expand on the established Smoke Monster and give it more depth and character.

"The collaboration with the Lost team was unprecedented," says Adam Avitabile, visual effects supervisor at LOOK. "I've never had that level of interaction with the directors and producers of a project. We all really worked as a team. That was especially nice for me, the 'new kid on the block,' as I came onto the show after the rest of the team had been working together for five years."

He continues, "Everyone there was really appreciative of the work we did."

"We worked very closely with the creators of the show," adds Melinka Thompson-Godoy, LOOK's visual effects producer. "Working directly with Carlton [Cuse] and Damon [Lindelof] was definitely a treat. It was wonderful to be able to give creative input and pick the brains of the show-runners and head writers. We also worked with the editing staff on a daily basis. Everyone was so passionately dedicated to the project."

"We had a great experience with LOOK," says series show-runner, head writer and executive producer Carlton Cuse. "Under tremendous pressures of time and budget, they helped us make many of the things on our crazy island feel a lot more believable. They were always pitching creative solutions and worked tirelessly to try and give us exactly what we wanted in each and every shot."

In addition to creating the effects for the series, the Lost final episode became such a large media event that LOOK was also asked to create the effects, including the Smoke Monster, for two 15-second Target commercials that aired during the final episode.