The Third Floor, worked on previs for Rogue One both in Los Angeles and in London. FX Guide has taken a closer look at the work they did and the close relationship with ILM. Here is an extract:
Artists from The Third Floor in LA and London produced previs for Rogue One, collaborating with the director, producers, the art department and the visual effects team at ILM to visualize story ideas and flow of action for the summer box office hit. Barry Howell was the Previs Supervisor at The Third Floor on Rogue One. He originally worked on George Lucas’ team pre-visualizing Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, where he met the other future founders of The Third Floor.
“Our teams from The Third Floor Los Angeles and London created previs, techvis and postvis across the movie,” says Howell. “I, along with our Asset Lead, Motoki Nishii, started within the art department in late 2014, working with Production Designer Doug Chiang. We moved with production to the UK, where we joined with artists from The Third Floor’s London office, led by my co-supervisor Margaux Durand-Rival.”
The Third Floor started with a team of just nine for this film, including Howell. “This consisted of full-time asset builders tasked with building custom sets, vehicles, creatures, props and characters for previs. They also incorporated existing ILM assets such as the Star Destroyers and prepped these to work within our system.”
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