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[NEWS=”http://www.cgnews.com/wp-content/uploads/pilgrim_pink_th.jpg”]26951[/NEWS]Director, Edgar Wright’s (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) eagerly awaited new film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is based on the cult comic book of the same name by Bryan Lee O’Malley and follows Toronto based hipster Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) and his band Sex bob-omb.

The story charts Scott’s efforts to win the heart of the elusive girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). However, nothing is ever straight forward in love and Scott soon discovers that in order to win Ramona’s heart, he must defeat each of her 7 evil ex-boyfriends in combat.

When Wright approached Double Negative to help him realise the visual effects of the movie, Dneg’s VFX Supervisor, Frazer Churchill and his team, knew that the biggest challenges would be in keeping the spirit of the comic alive, making the graphics photographic and visualising the extremely stylised fight sequences, all of which were based in a hyper-real altered reality.

The visual effects employed in the film, covered a huge spectrum, including creating some of the film’s stylised exteriors and cg environments, comic book graphics, visualised music, and of course, the 7 fights, ranging from kung fu to skatebording style (and everything in between), each of which escalated in spectacular intensity throughout the film and featured goodies such as Demon Hipster Chicks, Snow Dragons and a Sound Yetti, yes, a Sound Yetti!

(Follow this link to the film website for more info and to view trailers)

THE STORY
Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim. A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams…literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. Genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker’s quest to power up with love in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart’s ass—and now is back in town—to the teenage distraction he’s trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn’t been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor.

As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues’ gallery from her past—from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome identical twins. And if he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all before it really is game over.

ABOUT DOUBLE NEGATIVE
Since its formation in 1998, Double Negative has firmly established itself as a leading player in visual effects production worldwide. Located in the heart of London’s Soho, the company is a pre-eminent visual effects studio with more than 70 feature films to its credit. Led by Managing Director Alex Hope and CEO Matt Holben, Double Negative is capable of handling projects from initial design through on-set supervision and production to post-production. All key post-production technologies are available in-house to allow for maximum flexibility,

CREDITS
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Produced by: Edgar Wright, Marc Platt, Eric Gitter and Nira Park
Screenplay Written by: Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
Graphic novels written by: Bryan Lee O’Malley
Narrated by: Bill Hader
Music by: Nigel Godrich
Cinematography: Bill Pope
Editing by: Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
Studio: Big Talk Films
Distributed by: Universal Pictures

CAST
Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Victoria Flowers
Kieran Culkin as Wallace Wells
Ellen Wong as Knives Chau
Alison Pill as Kim Pine
Mark Webber as Stephen Stills
Johnny Simmons as Young Neil
Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim
Brie Larson as Natalie V. “Envy” Adams
Erik Knudsen as Luke “Crash” Wilson
Aubrey Plaza as Julie Powers
Tennessee Thomas as Lynette Guycott
Jean Yoon as Mrs. Chau

RELATED LINKS
www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com
www.dneg.com

SOURCES
doublenegative.com
scottpilgrimthemovie.com

Hi all,

I have a problem. When I create a read node using python it expects to receive information about the format and when is given none just assumes the project format. Is it possible to ask it to get the format from the file that is being read or to present the user with a format dropdown list to choose the correct format.

Hello

I ran into a strange problem with Maya Batch rendering!
I am trying to render a beauty, depth and a motionvector pass of a fluid simulation.
The fluid simulation is converted into polygons.
I also made different render layers for the beauty, motionvector and depth pass.

Now heres the problem:

When i batch render a single frame of the 3 renderlayers everything works fine. I get my 3 passes and they look how i would expect them.

However, everytime i try to render a sequence, every frame of the motionvector pass and the depth pass looks exactly like the first frame of the batchrender process.

The beatypass however comes out like its supposed to be.

I already tried to cash out the fluid polygon geometry, but that doesn’t work eather, because the cashed geometry looks totally weird.

By the way:

The beauty pass is a volume render of the fluid.
I converted the fluid into polygons to render out my depth and motionvector pass.

Anybody got an idea how i can fix this Problem?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings Braggart