The Visual Effects behind “The Curioius Case of Benjamin Button”

Fascinating interview…not to mention I have know Ed Ulbrich of Digital Domain since his days in advertising at Leo Burnett in Chicago.

BTW…if you haven’t seen the film go see it.

Fitting Visual Effects into Benjamin Button’s Workflow
Director David Fincher’s new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was created using a refined version of Fincher’s all-digital filmmaking pipeline that he used on his last movie, Zodiac (listen to Fincher speak on Zodiac here). Once again, Fincher relied on Grass Valley Viper cameras and S.Two hard drive recording systems, but this time, on a movie with major and complex visual effects-particularly the sophisticated work done to age actor Brad Pitt backwards. That work was done at Digital Domain, a facility that has worked with Fincher since he first started developing his digital pipeline on commercials and music videos a few years ago. This issue of HD Focus offers the first of two conversations with officials at Digital Domain about incorporating visual effects into Fincher’s workflow. First, this issue, is a conversation with Digital Domain Executive VP of Production Ed Ulbrich, a longtime collaborator with Fincher at Digital Domain.

To listen to the Ulbrich conversation about making Benjamin Button, CLICK HERE. Next week, we’ll continue the discussion with a chat with Eric Barba, Digital Domain’s visual effects supervisor on the Benjamin Button project.