MPC - The Nun II VFX Breakdown [FX Focus]

The Nun II by Michael Chaves (2023)

With over 70 meticulously crafted shots, our teams had the weighty task of making you shiver with THE newsstand scene and immersing you in digital landscapes of the beautiful South of France.

The work of the MPC Paris teams on the newspaper kiosk scene began in pre-production with exchanges of artistic references, then focused on their visual implementation. Laurent Creusot, MPC's visual effects supervisor, tells us that, for this film, the references naturally turned towards imagery from the 1950s, with the naivety of the advertisements of that time and highly intense religious images.

"From the beginning, Michael Chaves had a clear idea of a visual choreography creating tension and suspense," recalls Bastien Brenot, the CG supervisor. "The Nun would take shape in the form of moving photographs and magazine images. As the pages turned, they would combine to form new faces, and Valak would confront Irene for a final showdown."

"This sequence required close collaboration between departments at MPC, with technical complexity at every level," explains Laurent. "The design of the assembly of faces on the magazine pages, the movement rhythm, and the evolution of these designs were managed by the motion design department. The result was a flattened view of the entire kiosk, with each magazine animated over the total duration of the sequence."

We had to recreate 83 magazines in 3D to have sufficient control to make artistic decisions at the level of a single page, sometimes even just one side of the page.

SYNOPSIS:
1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

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