Anaconda
Directed by Tom Gormican
Synopsis
Best friends Griff and Doug have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie "Anaconda" When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they assemble a crew and head deep into the jungles of the Amazon to start filming. However, life soon imitates art when a gigantic anaconda with a thirst for blood starts hunting them down.
What we did
Stage23 delivered the bulk of the visual effects for Sony’s Anaconda — morphing Queensland locations and soundstage plates into a living Amazon, while ILM handled the snake.
The work spanned rainforest set extensions, day-for-night transformations, environment augmentation, cleanup, and large-scale river travel simulations with CG water and CG boats — including one sequence of more than 300 shots. With much of the external shots filmed across Queensland bushland and waterways, Stage23 were tasked with morphing raw Queensland landscapes into complex Amazonian scenes. Much of the landscape work included changing day to night sequences, adding the environment elements and cleaning up much of the live location shoots and re-rendering them.
- VFXJonathan Hairman