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Saw III
When VFX industry veterans Jon Campfens and Peter Denomme founded Switch VFX in early 2004, the idea was to escape the big-facility environment and start a boutique that they could believe in. (Campfens had worked at Canadian giant GVFX, and Denomme was running Calibre Digital Pictures, which was part of Alliance Atlantis.) They didn’t count on being the go-to guys for high-impact horror movies, but as it happens some of their best gigs have come from the genre — George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead last year, James Gunn’s tongue-in-cheek monster movie Slither earlier this year, and now the box-office behemoth Saw III.
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Land of the Dead
Switch VFX, a Toronto-based visual effects studio, recently completed work on LAND OF THE DEAD, the latest installment in legendary filmmaker George A. Romero’s DEAD horror franchise.
Switch VFX was responsible for 155 of the film’s more than 300 shots. Led by visual effects supervisor Jon Campfens, Switch VFX created complex zombie decapitations, digital gore, matte paintings and greenscreen composites. The work was awarded to Switch VFX by Romero and producer Peter Grunwald, both of whom had worked with Campfens earlier on BRUISER.
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Saw V
SAW V's Exec Producer, Dan Heffner, hired Jon Campfens as the visual effects supervisor and his studio Switch VFX for the fifth installment of the highly successful franchise. Toronto-based Switch VFX has been involved in the SAW franchise since SAW III, creating all the visual effects for the last three films and the head title sequences for the last two films.
For SAW V, Switch VFX had to create 155 shots for the film and were also responsible for the opening title sequence as well. The majority of the visual effects worked on were invisible effects work.
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In the spirit of "Steven Spielberg Presents", Ray Harryhausen and his agent Arnold Kunert have envisioned a way to help talented artists make a name in the industry. Where Spielberg spotlighted discoveries such as Robert Zemeckis, Joe Dante, and Chris Columbus in the 1980’s, “Ray Harryhausen Presents” has found a similar way to showcase talent through projects under his name and approval. Thus the stop motion short “The Pit and the Pendulum” was created, falling under the umbrella of "Ray Harryhausen Presents", which includes Harryhausen’s launch of comic books, movies, video games, trading cards and his official website.
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