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CafeFX Escapes with Mr. and Mrs. SmithBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get special effects help from CaféFX in two exciting escape sequences for the feature film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (20th Century Fox).
In "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", directed by Doug Liman, the stars play a married couple who appear bored with their quiet life but, unknown to each other, are actually international assassins whose career paths are about to collide, fatally.
In their first scene, a balcony sequence, CafeFX employed a variety of techniques to craft Jolie's escape from a high-rise building. In one effect, she pulls off a handle from her mesh purse, attaches it to an exterior wall sconce, and then jumps from the building. The purse unravels, acting like a descender rig, and lands Jolie safely on the ground.
To accomplish this feat, the actress was filmed on-stage against blue screen, jumping off a partial building set onto an air bag. CFX provided New York City backgrounds for some of the shots, created set extensions to merge the balcony with footage of an actual high-rise down to ground level, extended Jolie's jump to make her fall more dramatic, and crafted her life-saving CG mesh bag.
Steve Arguello used Newtek's LightWave to create the trusty mesh bag, which is fabricated of woven steel cables held together with little clips that pop off as it unravels. "The challenge was to make the pur
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18/6/2005 | Viewed 26,212 time(s)
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