Case Studies
The Saints are Coming
SWAY
Studio swoops VES Award for “The Saints are Coming”.
 In
an impressive Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles, Wayne
England and the rest of the SWAY Studio team proudly received
the VES award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Music Video
for the U2 and Green Day music video “The Saints Are
Coming”. The VES fifth annual gala event attracted
more than eight hundred celebrities, artists, directors and
nominees.
“I came away from the awards with a strong sense of
what an extraordinary community we are all part of in the
visual effects world,” said Wayne England, VFX Supervisor
at SWAY Studio, in his first reaction. “Art and science
are dancing together like we have never seen before.”
Wayne emphasized the team spirit and dedication that finally
led SWAY to win the award. “It was a community of people
that worked together with great effort and commitment to create
the “Saints” music video,” said Wayne.
“The entire team at Next Limit Technologies can celebrate
along with us here at SWAY, as it was Next Limit’s RealFlow4
software that played a key role in enabling us to achieve
the fluid dynamic effects that contributed in part to our
winning the VES award,” Wayne continued. “Once
again, thank you for your vision and commitment.”
“Next Limit is extremely proud to have played part
in this admirable achievement,” commented Next Limit
CEO Victor Gonzalez. “We are certain this is only the
beginning of a fruitful future for both SWAY Studio and RealFlow.
Congratulations!”
SWAY Studios changes history for U2/
Green Day video: Case study
The relief effort following the Hurricane Katrina disaster
could have been different – or at least according to
U2 and Green Day’s latest, thought-provoking music video
“The Saints are Coming”. SWAY Studio’s contribution
to the project has resulted in a flawless combination of existing
news footage and photo-real CG elements such as Apache helicopters,
Stealth Bombers and tanks rolling through floods of RealFlow-simulated
water. The outcome is a thought-provoking video that shows
what it might have looked like had the US-government responded
differently to the disaster.
“This project had a very tight deadline of two and
a half weeks from start to finish,” said Mark Glaser,
Owner and Creative Director at SWAY Studio. “This made
our work particularly challenging because the CG-elements
that were integrated into existing news footage needed to
have a very high degree of photorealism to be successful.”
“The most challenging aspect was taking a shot of a
flooded main boulevard and adding rows of tanks rolling through
the water,” Glaser continues. “We developed some
incredible techniques to make this feasible. SWAY also added
video degradation to the CG-elements so that they would match
the original footage, which varied substantially from shot
to shot.” All of the water effects were done using RealFlow4.
“SWAY Studio’s work with RealFlow4 has resulted
in some high-quality water shots that would not have been
possible with any other off-the-shelf fluid simulation tool,”
said Victor Gonzalez, co-founder and CEO of Next Limit Technologies.
“We are proud to have played part in the creation of
this video.”
Read also the interview with Wayne England.
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