New Medication
(Color / VFX)
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Color
Yellow, green, and red all play together to help tell the story. The grade is based off of one look, with a few different variations depending on how far the main color for that scene needed to be pushed.
New Medication was a very fun project to color. Director Jerod Wood had a clear vision on how color would be incorporated into the story. Along with the talented cinematography of Luke Fletcher, there was clear direction from the start on how to best enhance their existing work with color grading.
Visual Effects
The main visual effect in the short is the face replacements of the other girl. This was accomplished by creating key frames of the face throughout the shot in Photoshop (3-5 keys per shot) and using EBSynth to generate the tweens.
No 3D reconstructions, no motion tracking, and most importantly, much shorter render times.