Amazing Before & After VFX Breakdown: "300"

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The film 300 is an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel but is not the first Frank Miller novel to have been adapted for the silver screen. The Wolverine, Batman: Year One, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Elektra and Sin City are all based on Miller's work and have all attempted to mimic his graphic style.

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Photo Real Is Real Expensive.
In most modern films, filmmakers want Photorealism and for the VFX to be "Invisible". This requires more discipline, time, and money, both in principle photography and in post-production.
In 300, a certain style was required and so photorealism was not necessary, making production cheaper and quicker. for example, for blood spatter to look real it has to be the correct amount, the correct color, and the correct texture, it has to spray in a realistic way and interact with light in a certain manner.
When stylizing a film, these rules needn't apply, blood spatter can be any tone of red, any amount, the only rule is "Stay true to the style".

The Oracle Girl
For this scene, the actress was filmed "Wet for Dry" meaning the actress was filmed in a water tank in front of a blue screen, off set, this was done to achieve a supernatural, almost antigravity effect. She was shot with a high-speed camera so the director could apply certain speed ramps that the VFX then had to match.
Screaming Death Monkey's VFX team were given the plates of the oracle girl on blue and a style frame that gave them the look and feel of how the lighting, sky, and smoke should be.
The smoke and the "Oracles" clothes had to look and behave in a special way and interact with the "Oracle's" movements.
The smoke was created using cloth dynamics in "Lightwave". A "Bone chain" was used to determine the location and animation of the smoke and the morph controlled how fast it was emitted from the lamps, after rendering, "Eyeon Fusion" was used for effects compositing, and "Fusion's" Grid Warp Tool was used to enhance and Clean-up the movement of the smoke.

The Crush
The Director wanted to interpret Frank Miller's book and translate it into 3 dimensions, to do this the team first identified the shots in the film they wanted to "Mimic" from the book, these shots were dubbed "Frank Frames" because they helped "Anchor" the film to Frank millers style and allowed for flexibility in between.
A total of 10 different VFX vendors from 4 different countries were used so it was incredibly important to ensure that everyone knew exactly the style the director wanted.
As part of the film's visual development, the director and his team tested almost everything that would be seen in the film from clothing and weapons to CG wounds and blood, all this was used to create a "Style Guide" which was then distributed to all the VFX vendors.
It was in this Visual development period that the director and his team came up with an idea for an effect that would give the film its final style, and they called this effect "The Crush". It consists of "Crushing" the black content of the image and enhancing the color saturation to change the contrast ratio of the film, and every image in the film went through this post-image process.

Elephant and Rhino
Hydraulx was tasked with creating and animating the rhino and the elephant that appear in the movie.
A Prop Rhino was built to be used on set and Hydraulx used this rhino as a basis for their CG version. In the directors "Style guide" there were Photoshop-style guides which were very large and very detailed and these were invaluable in allowing the team to quickly find the correct balance between real and comic book.
Both animals were built and animated almost entirely in Maya and rendered using Hydraulx's separate render farm.

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