LOVE: THE MOVIE
Short film
My job: director, among other tasks

I did the effects for my own award-winning film. The backgrounds were created in Photoshop; compositing was done in Commotion and Final Cut Pro.

The goal was an incredibly over-the-top visual effects overload (heavy on gratutious explosions) as a comic end to a tale of romance and cinema. Neither subtle nor realistic, but I think the joke works.

The actors remained in place for the running and I moved them with Commotion. My crew begged me not to show their feet, that it would make the compositing too difficult with respect to the shadows... but I had to have things my own way.

Watch the complete scene