MPC - Notre-Dame la Part du Feu VFX Breakdown [Environment Focus]

Notre-Dame La Part du Feu (Notre-Dame) - 2022 [Environment Focus]

MPC Paris teams produced over 155 VFX shots on the @Netflix series Notre-Dame, la part du feu, including several scenes in full CG.

Interview with director Hervé Hadmar: Are there any visual effects shots that you found particularly challenging?

"One shot, entirely done in 3D, where Alice enters the cathedral for the first time, was particularly stressful for me. It’s an 8-second shot from the point of view of the young firefighter looking at the cathedral, where you see the columns, the Pieta in the background, the statues, the chairs. It was double or nothing because I didn’t know if it would work or not. As this is the first shot where we see the interior of the cathedral, it’s the first shot where we see the interior of the cathedral. As this is the first shot where we see the interior of the cathedral, we thought that if it didn’t work, it might be a problem for the whole series. In the end, I’m very proud of it. MPC did a phenomenal job on it. (…) The 560 or so VFX shots were split between four studios and MPC did an amazing job on the cathedral’s interiors.”

SYNOPSIS
During the night that Notre-Dame burned. It's about the destiny of men and women who have their own fire to put out. As the Paris firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in the Cathedral, the show also follows characters being put through the wringer they will have to fight each other, love each other, come across each other, hate each other, smile at or help each other so that, in the end, they may have a chance to start all over again.

MORE INFO
https://www.mpcvfx.com/en/filmography/notre-dame-la-part-du-feu/

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