Indigenous People Struggle to Protect Earth’s Wilderness in Powerful Film 'Earth Defender' - LBBOnline
"Heckler Singapore teams up with Studio Birthplace as VFX partner on the powerful music film."
Little Black Book has kindly written another article about our work, this time for 'Earth Defender', our music film released with musician Novo Amor. The artilce contains interviews with the directors of Earth Defender as well as Post Production / VFX Creative Director Cody Amos from Heckler Singapore.
An excerpt from the article below:
How important was it to present the story through an authentic – rather than tokenistic – lens?
Enlisting drone plates shot on location, 3D/2D extensions, and a combination of props and CG elements, VFX played an important role in the film’s convincing and powerful portrayal of forest destruction. In one aerial shot, viewers are introduced to the enormous scale of deforestation, and in another, CG birds fall directly from the sky. The hero Earth Defender’s transitions into the afterlife was another detailed component of the post production.
Cody Amos says, “This was the sort of project I wish I could work on every single day. Firstly, the technical VFX challenges were huge! Building a forest in CG is one thing, but getting the whole forest to fall over is completely another. We built a cool system to destroy huge trees and then duplicated them, so we had thousands of trees falling and breaking.
The full article can be read here.
Learn More:
Watch 'Earth Defender' here.
