Director: Clayton Jacobson
Project: Mordy Koots
Role: Compositor
Format: Web series
I was approached by Clayton Jacobson, the award-winning director of the Australian film Kenny, to work on his web series Mordy Koots - a WWII-era comedy starring his well-known brother, actor Shayne Jacobson.
I came on board as visual effects supervisor and lead compositor for the series. Almost every shot in the series required visual effects to create the look of the 1940s era, which largely involved compositing green screen live action with CGI gaming footage and studio sets to create a seamless and consistent visual treatment.
I worked with Clayton in establishing a stylised look and feel to find a method to seamlessly combine the different mediums of live-action, photography and CGI gaming footage. I found the solution in the three-strip Technicolor look of films from the 1930s and 40s, which featured high contrast and saturated colours muted with film grain. Not only did it effectively combine the different media to appear as if it was all filmed at once in camera, but it also gave the project the look and feel of a film from the era in which it was set. I was able to imitate this look after extensive research and testing of grading and film grain effects.
The series took several months to complete and was subsequently nominated for Best Visual Effects in a Web Series at the Los Angeles, Streamy Awards.
