X-Men: The Last Stand

Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 2006
Role: VFX / CG artist
Tools: Maya · Shake · SynthEyes

The brief

Jean Grey tears her family home off its foundation. I built the digital version of the house and every piece that tears off and floats around it, and textured the characters in the third shot of the sequence.

Matchmove in SynthEyes, CG in Maya, composites in Shake.

The house lift

The house as debris begins lifting around it — Shot 1: debris starts to swirl

The house rising off its foundation — Shot 2: the house lifts

The house breaking apart in mid-air — Shot 3: torn apart