Amazing Before & After VFX Breakdown: The Day After Tomorrow
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The Day After Tomorrow is a Disaster movie involving "Superstorms" that destroy Los Angeles and New York. Sounds like every VFX house's dream job, right? Well, it nearly was! Over a dozen different vendors took part in the creation of 800 shots, and one of them was fired!
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Controversy
Just six months before the deadline, Lead VFX house Digital Domain was fired because the Director and VFX supervisor grew unhappy with their work and worried about delays. DD's finished and unfinished shots were farmed out to various VFX houses.
Hydraulx did the Tokyo hail storm, space shots and perhaps the longest CG fly-over shot ever done! 4000 frames and 2,5 minutes long!
The Orphanage did the "Insta-freeze" shots on the Empire state building and helicopters.
Industrial Light and Magic created The Hungry wolves.
Tweak completed the aerial sequences and storm tide shots.
The tornadoes in Los Angeles and the freighter sailing the streets of Manhattan were entirely Digital Domain's work.
Recreating N.Y.C
Originally there was a plan to build a model of N.Y.C, they knew they needed 13 blocks including the area around 5th avenue, around the library, 41st to 42nd street, and the Empire State building, but the need for Photo-realism tipped the balance in CG's favor.
Lidar VFX provided high-resolution laser scans for the 13 blocks, these scans took 3 months to complete, were accurate down to the centimeter, and provided 1.5 terabytes of geometric data. In addition to this, 3 teams of photographers took over 50,000 photos of building textures.
Flooding N.Y.C
Digital Domain and Tweak films combined forces to create the storm tide shots, with Tweak completing all the aerial water shots in their entirety.
In the wide shot of Lower Manhattan and the submerging statue of liberty, The statue was done by Digital Domain and the torch and lightning by Tweak but the body of water was an amalgamation of both team's work.
Digital Domain's "Splash" was deemed too thin and vaporous so Tweak created a more robust 3d splash, matching and fleshing out the original. They then hand-painted and rotoscoped the shot pulling the Tweak "splash" in and out through Digital Domains one.
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