Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains, heavy and harrowing, a legend in 90’s rock was recording their 5th album “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”. We been tapped to create their debut music video which was a huge honor and a dream come true to not only work with this legendary band, but supervise post production.
Impact Summary
I was put on as the post production supervisor managing the success of the production. I worked with edit, sound, color, & compositing finalizing shots and edit.
In addition I also created all the 3D shots which included modeling, texturing, destruction, rendering & compositing. I also composited many other shots in the video myself.
The Album got 2nd on billboards top 100. If the music video did not release in that week, the album might not have charted at all.
The video itself managed 12 million views on youtube.
The Process
Rendering was done in Arnold with a multi-pass exr file. Lighting was done through domes of the footage in raw format to preserve as much dynamic range as possible.
To achieve the effects of the characters turning into stone throughout the video we needed to model each character out by hand through the video references.
We modeled our characters in maya. We created a high res for close up shots, and retopo a lower poly version for destruction in select shots.
A close up of the maya project of me simulating the destruction and making sure the rock texture was not broken when new debris was created from the sim
2 weeks before Alice in chains drops their 4th album, “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”; principal photography has just wrapped and the raw footage was sent to us.
Unfortunately the post house was skilled up for 2D compositing in after effects and I was the only person that knew 3D, maya and the compositing pipeline.
I educated the compositing team about compositing 3D workflows with multiple render passes & how to work in linear color space with colors that go above 8bit compositions in After Effects.
● Credits
Blizzard Entertainment
2016
Date
Michael Diaz 😄
Matt Mede
Jermery Nelligan
Team
Maya
Nuke
After Effects
Photoshop
RV
Pipeline
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