Carey Mulligan is being recognized for her great work in Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman”. Mammal worked with Director Emerald Fennell to design, shoot and execute an important story-telling moment for the film.
Emerald Fennell’s Dark, Jaded, Funny, Furious Fable of Female Revenge
Mammal Studios worked with Director Emerald Fennell on set and in post to set up a pivotal scene in her debut feature film.
David Ayers' "Tax Collector" Leads at Box Office and Video-on-demand
Mammal Studios was happy to continue our collaboration with Director David Ayers on his new release, The Tax Collector. Previous projects with the LA-based Director include Fury, Suicide Squad and Bright. Mammal Visual Effects Supervisor Gregory Liegey worked on set with Director Ayer and DP Salvatore Totino to achieve several visual effects sequences including a multi-pass phantom camera motion control action shot.
https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/the-tax-collector-shia-labeouf-box-office-1234729945/
Mammal Studios joins "AN AMERICAN PICKLE"
Mammal Studios' team under the visual effects supervision of Gregory Oehler completed 80 shots on Seth Rogan's An American Pickle, directed by Brandon Trost. Now streaming on HBOMax, the film's visual effects help Rogan play dual roles as Herschel Greenbaum and his great-great-grandson Ben.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorkers-sell-out-becomes-an-american-pickle
Mammal Studios is excited to be a part of the Paramount Network's hit show,Yellowstone for a third season.
"Bad Boys For Life" To Become Biggest January Release Ever
The Mammal Studios team completed over 300 shots for Bad Boys for Life. Visual Effects Supervisor Gregory Liegey worked with Directors Adil & Bilall in post production to complete the work and refine the look of multiple sequences in close collaboration with DP Robrecht Heyvaert.
‘BLACK PANTHER’ WINS “Best SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS” AT THE EE BAFTA FILM AWARDS 2019
Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack & Dan Sudick accept the award for Special Visual Effects for 'Black Panther' at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2019.
'BLACK PANTHER' WINS "BEST VISUAL EFFECTS" AT THE 24TH ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS
Netflix’s ‘Bird Box’ Hits Record-Breaking 45 Million Accounts in First Week
The Mammal Studios team completed over 200 shots for Netflix's sleeper hit BirdBox. Senior VFX Supervisors Gregory Liegey and Gregory Oehler teamed up to oversee work which ranged from environment enhancement of the dystopian world outside to the graphic design of story-telling imagery within the closed-off places where people were forced to hide.
Mammal Studios Travels to Yellowstone
Mammal Studios VFX Supervisor Gregory Liegey traveled to shooting locations in Utah and Montana for Season 1 of The Paramount Network's Yellowstone. He oversaw visual effects for both main unit and 2nd unit in addition to supervising VFX splinter unit shoots. The Mammal Studios team delivered over 800 shots in post with a scope of work which included set extension, matte painting, CG animals and FX.
Hollywood Reporter: Local Production Touted at Film in California Conference
Production insiders gathered on Saturday for the Film in California Conference.
The annual confab, held at Los Angeles Center Studios this year, drew the likes of studio executives, location managers and film commissioners. The conference gives the latter the opportunity to remind production pros of the state's built-in perks — namely, diverse landscapes, robust crews and near-perfect weather — and specifically what their local regions offer.
At the top of the daylong event, California Film Commissioner Amy Lemisch kicked things off with a few opening remarks she gave alongside Film Liaisons In California Statewide president Cassandra Hesseltine. Lemisch’s organization will partner with FLICS, the association of regional film liaisons, for the conference each year.
The confab came at a great time for California, Lemisch noted. "Our crews are busy working on big and small features, TV series and commercials, facilities are bustling and we continue to see an explosion of content production," she said. "Our conference today is as much about celebrating as it is about networking and learning."
[...] Also presented later in the day was the panel "Film Festivals — A Primer," with representatives from Outfest & Newfest, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and LA Film Festival; and the panel "The Magic of Visual Effects," with representatives from Netflix, Mammal Studios and Zoic Studios.
Read the full article here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/courtney-b-vance-touts-local-production-at-film-california-conference-1108855
CINEFEX #158: BLACK PANTHER
Director Ryan Coogler transports audiences to the hidden kingdom of Wakanda as its new king, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), takes the throne. Production designer Hannah Beachler conjures an exotic African world, brought to life by visual effects supervisor Geoffrey Baumann and team.
Baumann and visual effects producer Lisa Beroud led an international team of vendors, backed up by capital T, Exceptional Minds and in-house team Mammal Studios. By the time Black Panther premiered on January 29, 218, every shot in the film had passed through their hands.
You can read the entire article about the visual effects in 'Black Panther' in Cinefex #158
Netflix’s ‘Bright’ Lands 11 Million U.S. Streaming Viewers Over First Three Days
Continuing our collaboration with Director David Ayer after Fury and Suicide Squad, Mammal Studios completed 200 shots on his Netflix feature, Bright. VFX Supervisor Gregory Liegey worked with Ayer for a month at the start of post production to develop looks and concepts for all VFX vendors to use. The Mammal Team then completed work for a gunfight/chase sequence through East LA, FX enhancement for an interior building fire and magic wand effects for the climactic finale.
MEET THE STUDIO: SHOTGUN VISITS MAMMAL STUDIOS - PART 3
Mammal Studios talks about their work on Suicide Squad and how Shotgun integrated with Nuke played an essential part.
PRADA PRESENTS "PAST FORWARD" BY DAVID O. RUSSELL
Past Forward is a multi-platform short film collaboration between Miuccia Prada and American writer/director David O. Russell. Acclaimed for his films such as American Hustle, The Fighter, and Silver Linings Playbook, Russell imagined Past Forward as a “cinema poem,” a surreal, futuristic silent dreamscape with multiple actors replaying scenes in shifting combinations. The result is an unreliable story, a parallax view wherein the scenarios, characters, costumes, genres, and endings, repeat and morph, refusing the logic of conventional narrative. Russell creates characters as elements of a complex collage, the viewer is left to decode what is experience, what is memory, what is dream, and discern the overlap and differences between them.
Additional information: http://www.prada.com/en/a-future-archive/short-movies/pastforward.html
Meet the Studio: Shotgun Visits Mammal Studios - Part 2
CINEFEX #149: SUICIDE SQUAD
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a cavalcade of DC Comics' characters including Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Joker (Jared Leto) on a covert government mission to combat an even deadlier foe. Director David Ayer brought the super-villain spectacle to life with visual effects supervisor Jerome Chen...
"Mammal Studios did what we called 'battle embers' of Enchantress in the final fight. Mammal did a great job, art-directing embers shot by shot. At that point in the schedule, there wasn't time to do 3D Houdini-style effects, so we created most of those effects in 2D Nuke layers. The orange streaking colors added so much to the monochromatic palette - they gave the scene an extra kick and made Enchantress seem more dynamic."
You can read the entire article about the visual effects in 'Suicide Squad' in Cinefex #149
MEET THE STUDIO: SHOTGUN VISITS MAMMAL STUDIOS - PART 1
Shotgun Software recently visited Mammal Studios as part of their "Meet the Studio" series.
Shotgun Software Blog: Congrats to the 2016 Pipeline Award Recipients!
We had the honor of recognizing excellence in pipeline tool development and people who have made significant contributions to the pipeline community at the 3rd Annual Pipeline Awards at Siggraph yesterday!
We were once again blown away by the spectacular range of submissions we received, covering everything from artist tools to integrating Shotgun into an educational curriculum to tools for publishing, review, reporting, and more!
Without further ado, here are Shotgun's 2016 Pipeline Award recipients:
Pipeline Hero Award
For people pushing the field of pipeline forward significantly, within the Shotgun community or in the broader industry
Janice Collier, Mammal Studios
Janice was recognized with the Pipeline Hero Award this year for her outstanding contribution not only to Mammal where she has helped create a pipeline for the 15-person company on par with international facilities 10 times their size, but also for her contribution to the ongoing development of Shotgun’s Toolkit. She has provided valuable feedback over the years through her participation in debugging sessions and willingness to have longer discussions with the Shotgun team on Mammal's workflow - ultimately benefiting the entire Shotgun community.
Read the entire post and list of winners here: http://blog.shotgunsoftware.com/2016/07/congrats-to-2016-pipeline-award.html?m=1
FUTURE OF PRODUCTION: JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD
Mammal Studios' Supervisor / Partner Gregory Liegey participated in Shotgun Software's Siggraph 2016 panel, discussing the impact of the cloud on Visual Effects.
Massive data centers and fast networks are changing the way we live and work. Cloud computing, big data and analytics are the new IT disruptors, and will be potentially more disruptive to the VFX industry than the personal computer. Join an illustrious panel of visual effects veterans, moderated by Phil Peterson, to discuss this new future – from more open, collaborative production ecosystems to massively scalable resources.