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Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 16:14:54 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: video post apoclayptic

You may not have heard the name Thilo Ewers but he's something of a visual FX wunderkind. For example, he's currently working under-the-radar as the lead digital matte painter on two of this year's biggest releases - Roland Emmerich's 2012, and James McTeigue's Ninja Assasin. Not too shabby.

Last year, Ewers made a beautiful animated short film called They Will Come to Town. Actually, it's more of a public service announcement as you'll see, but it is truly stunning to look at and showcases what Ewers can do with a few million pixels at his disposal.

You'll find the spot after the break. And, as usual, let us know what you thought in the comments below.


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Posted by: Anonymous | May 20, 2009 11:42:47 am | permalink

Wonderful.

Sort of makes you want to embrace global warming though.

Posted by: Ben Austwick | May 20, 2009 12:32:03 pm | permalink

Amazing!

Posted by: JackCrow | May 20, 2009 01:08:38 pm | permalink

Needs more Kevin Costner.
Quite stunning.

Posted by: G.H. | May 20, 2009 01:45:29 pm | permalink

thts nothing to do with matte painting thou. thats 3d motion design type of stuff. anyhow, reli well done.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 20, 2009 02:55:27 pm | permalink

That was awesome!

Posted by: Jeff | May 20, 2009 03:49:14 pm | permalink

Truly amazing stuff!
Reminds me of some sequences from "AI".

Posted by: D-mooN | May 20, 2009 04:29:41 pm | permalink

has plenty to do with matte painting
i'm fairly sure that's 2d mattes projected onto 3d models to simulate detail when the camera moves
it would take an army to create that much detail in 3d
a trick i wish more films would use as it looks good and nobody will know different

Posted by: S | May 20, 2009 04:43:53 pm | permalink

Split the spot is very cool Global Warming is BS, a way for some so called grennies to make allot of dough. This Rock is 4.5 Billion years old and has survived stuff that would wipe us out as a species. Don't save the Earth Save the Humans, the Earth will fine in twenty million years.

Posted by: 2012 Guy | May 20, 2009 06:29:19 pm | permalink

Okay, you win. Let's save the humans.

Actually, I thought the promo was incredibly unrealistic. We all know there won't be any whales left by the time New York goes underwater.

Posted by: bad dog | May 20, 2009 08:51:12 pm | permalink

I love these wacky global warming PSAs. Someday they will all seem as silly as those civil defense films from the '50s. Then again, at least the threat of nuclear war was real....

Still, nice FX work.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 20, 2009 10:41:09 pm | permalink

So beautiful! What a pity it's about global warming...

Posted by: Anirul | May 21, 2009 01:45:29 am | permalink

spellbinding. Yes by the time sea levels rise I find it hard to believe there will be any whales - or fish for that matter - left. Still it is an utterly beautiful and haunting piece. Excellent.

Posted by: daniel boulton | May 21, 2009 02:14:13 am | permalink

Wow, I get HUGE flashbacks to Bioshock. How amazing is that video..

Posted by: Inhert | May 21, 2009 05:07:02 am | permalink

Nice piece of work... for a global warming propaganda campaign.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 22, 2009 11:19:37 am | permalink

In a moment of incredibly rare scientific consensus, thousands of the world's leading scientists have concurred that global warming is occurring and that human activity is a primary contributor. I'm so glad some guy named Anonymous on a blog set me straight and made me see that it's all BS. Through logic and faultless reason, he showed me how right wingers' kneejerk dislike of Al Gore and their house slave mentality towards big business trumps the urgent warnings of thousands of the world's leading scientists. Thank you, Anonymous!

Posted by: bad dog | May 22, 2009 02:58:30 pm | permalink

here u find a better version:

www.somethingiscoming.de

Posted by: Anonymous | June 5, 2009 11:27:21 am | permalink

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