VFX and Post Production 1: Overview
Description
The basic premise of my piece is that two superpowered individuals fight in a city street causing major damage to the surroundings until one of them is brutally killed. One of the characters will be a Superman-type individual with the ability to fly, super strength and laser eyes while the other will be more of an ‘ninja’ type relying more on technique rather than raw strength although they will still have super strength and superhuman reflexes. I will develop this in Unreal Engine allowing me to make use of the knowledge I already have with the sequencer tools in the engine while allowing me to gain experience with the Niagara particle system which I will utilise for at least some of the visual effects within my piece.
It will begin with the first character flying into an urban street finding a squad of soldiers that he quickly dispatches using his laser eyes before the second character arrives. The two characters will at first trade blows showing that they are mostly equally matched. Eventually, the second character will be launched through a wall into a building and be left in a vulnerable state. The first character will take advantage of this by picking up the second character who will struggle as his head is crushed by the first character. The final shot will be the second character slowly walking out of the building completely covered in blood.
Inspiration
My main source of inspiration for this piece is the TV show The Boys as I decided while developing my idea that I wanted it to be quite brutal and bloody but not necessarily realistic in how it displays this which is a main component of The Boys as an experience. A specific fight from the show is shown in the video below. This fight displays something similar to what in I want to create in the characters just go at each other with no care for the environment.
Another scene from the show that I wish to draw inspiration from is this scene below. The main thing I would draw inspiration from in this scene is the use of a close up shot on Homelander to show his mental state/emotion and how he reacts to it. Realistically, I won’t be able to emulate a scene of this nature but I want to use at least a shot similar to this to show when the first character of my piece uses his laser eyes ability.
References
Amazon Prime Video UK (2022) That Scene When Homelander Has A Meltdown And Kills Everyone | The Boys | Prime Video [Video]. Available online: https://youtu.be/yZ1egVORfn0 [Accessed 7/12/2022].
Prime Video (2022) Homelander vs. The Butcher and Soldier Boy | The Boys Clip | Prime Video [Video]. Available online: https://youtu.be/Rsjo7NQW0-E [Accessed 5/12/2022].