The Nuke tracker could get there too, but we needed speed and accuracy the first time.” “Mocha was just the right tool for the job on the face tracks. “We’re a Nuke/Maya house and we mainly use the Mocha Pro standalone version, but some artists prefer the OFX Nuke plugin.
I don’t think we could have pulled it off without Mocha.” “It was a truly crazy amount of tracking work. “Mocha was instrumental in helping us get the eye tracks for all the blue eye shots in the movie,” states James Jooyoung Lee, compositing supervisor. There were nearly 450 eye shots in total. Maymudes and his team focused on any shot where the Freman or anyone exposed to the spice long enough had deep blue eyes (The Eyes of Ibad). “This can be very hard to do in the esoteric nature of films. He’s very pleasant to work for and can articulate his ideas in a technical enough way that our artists understand him,” says Maymudes. Jacob Maymudes, CEO and chief creative officer, acted as one of Wylie’s VFX supervisors on the film along with colleague Patrick Heinen. The studio, which relies on Mocha Pro’s planar tracking tools, played multiple roles on the film while also creating new technical workflows and even an app. The epic sci-fi fantasy has been sweeping up visual effects awards this season as quickly as sandworms swallow their prey (most recently BAFTA and VES awards) - and is hoping to keep the streak alive with the Academy Awards this weekend. is a boutique visual effects studio based in Culver City, CA, that packs a lot of “the spice.” The full-service company provides previs, postvis, and final visual effects for feature films and television, including director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.
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