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Apr 30, 2008
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New Tech for An Old Story
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by Robin Berger
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Director Tom Hooper noted that it’s not often that “someone spends over $100 million” recreating the 18th century for a TV miniseries.
But included in HBO’s big budget rendition of David McCullough’s John Adams text was an impressive amount for special effects. “The advantage of knowing that you’re going to have a fairly substantial CGI quotient was a bit liberating because you don’t have to censor yourself for budget reasons,” said Co-executive Producer and Scriptwriter Kirk Ellis. “We had the leeway to replicate things in visual effects if we could not shoot them on practical locations.”
At press time Ellis was in the process of developing 1776—McCullough’s sequel to John Adams—as a miniseries for HBO. “That’s a large scale war film that undoubtedly will also have a significant CGI component,” he said.
Special Effects Supervisor Erik Henry is entering an episode of John Adams as HBO’s Emmy bid in the special effects category. According to Visual Effects Producer Steve Kullback, the special effects team delivered about 600 shots, about 320 of them provided by Santa Maria, Calif.-based CafeFX.
Click www.tvtechnology.com for the whole story.
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