Concept Art Spotlight
The third-act chase needed height without a soundstage build. This is how we fused a real bridge plate with a digital city crown.
We shot anamorphic at blue hour, locked camera heights to storyboard marks, and fed lighting direction to CG so reflections in glass matched the practical towers we kept in plate.
Geographic truth in the foreground sold the fake skyline; voters in reviews singled out the wet pavement continuity more than the digital buildings.
Matte paintings were 16-bit EXR with vector depth — comp could slide parallax per shot without repainting.
Keep exploring breakdowns, concept work, and craft essays from the Rockon crew.
Special Effects Breakdown
How our VFX team built believable weightlessness without cutting corners on character emotion.
Special Effects Breakdown
A look at the LUTs and contrast choices that make night scenes readable on OLED and projector.
Concept Art Spotlight
From Unreal Engine blocking to final grade: one vertical set-piece, start to finish.
Concept Art Spotlight
Massing studies and keyframes for the interdimensional threshold — before a single poly landed in layout.
