Enough is enough
If you found the easy way out what would you do to keep it to yourself?
Esc is a 2020 live action film created by animators produced by Production Attic. We wanted to combine our live action and animation experience so wrote a non dialogue film that we fully 3D Prevized before shooting.
Starring Laura Wooff and Russell Tokdemir
Written by Matthew Cowan and Nick Leonard
DOP Nick Leonard
Gaffer Pierre Gobilliard
Grip Lee Croudy
Production Assistance Luke Smith, Laura Ferguson-Turner & Matt Murphy
Production Accountant Laura McMillan
Thanks also to Neil MacMillan, The Govan Shed
Edited by Martin Heron
VFX James Malcolm
Grade Hudson Martins
Music & Sound by Soundsmiths, Menik & Brian Perez
Produced and directed by Matthew Cowan
Director filmography
If you found the easy way out what would you do to keep it to yourself?
Esc is a 2020 live action film created by animators produced by Production Attic. We wanted to combine our live action and animation experience so wrote a non dialogue film that we fully 3D Prevized before shooting.
Starring Laura Wooff and Russell Tokdemir
Written by Matthew Cowan and Nick Leonard
DOP Nick Leonard
Gaffer Pierre Gobilliard
Grip Lee Croudy
Production Assistance Luke Smith, Laura Ferguson-Turner & Matt Murphy
Production Accountant Laura McMillan
Thanks also to Neil MacMillan, The Govan Shed
Edited by Martin Heron
VFX James Malcolm
Grade Hudson Martins
Music & Sound by Soundsmiths, Menik & Brian Perez
Produced and directed by Matthew Cowan
Director filmography
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3D Previz
Above: Full film & Trailer comparison
Left: First shot comparison & Various other comparison examples
We created the film in 3D before shooting.
This allowed us to carefully plan out our shots and camera moves to allow us to tell the story with the camera without dialogue, blocking out more like an animation than live action. We rigged a copy of the equipment we were using (mainly a 2m jib) in Maya so we knew if we could get the shot in 3D we could get it on set too.
It also allowed us to efficiently plan out our shots with the floorplans below.
Left: First shot comparison & Various other comparison examples
We created the film in 3D before shooting.
This allowed us to carefully plan out our shots and camera moves to allow us to tell the story with the camera without dialogue, blocking out more like an animation than live action. We rigged a copy of the equipment we were using (mainly a 2m jib) in Maya so we knew if we could get the shot in 3D we could get it on set too.
It also allowed us to efficiently plan out our shots with the floorplans below.
