Frantic Films VFX contributed 334 shots to the upcoming “Dragonball: Evolution” movie. The movie is based on the popular manga by Akira Toriyama, and Frantic acknowledges that any story with such a cult following will be extremely scrutinized by fans. As such, they spent extra time making the effects “just right”.
Frantic created full digital versions of these Fulum Assassins that had to match up seamlessly with shots of the actors in costume. During one dailies review, the Frantic team actually had to remind the producers which characters were real and which were digital replacements. Additional work done by Frantic on this scene included extensive sky replacement and the scripting of custom tools for Frantic’s in-house fluid simulation toolset Flood to generate the photo-real lava.
