About
Guardians of the Tomb (2018) is an adventure movie starring Kelsey Grammer, Kellan Lutz, and Li Bing Bing. It is the largest ever Chinese-Australian co-production to date and was popular with its target audience of teenage Chinese girls. It recouped a third of its 26 million dollar budget in its opening weekend.
Working under my (then) company name Minifilm, for the first time I employed a permanent assistant, the wise-cracking Tiyan Baker, who headed up roto, comp setup.
We ultimately submitted over 200 final visual effects shots to the film. In addition to taking creative lead of all screen content and GUIs in the movie, we also produced several travel simulation and analogue film treatment sequences, as well as many clean-up shots.
I worked closely with the rest of the post team, led by post-production supervisor Henry Karjalainen (Lego Movie, Great Gatsby), and editor Richard Learoyd (Fearless, Knowing, I Robot).
Our tools on the project were centred around Nuke Studio with Cinema 4D, Adobe Creative Cloud for the graphics. Shot status tracking, and CDL data handling was all done via custom scripts in Google Sheets.
