A tonely and aesthetically beautiful show together with dupe's seamless VFX
Overview
"Eric" is a 2024 Netflix series that follows Vincent, a washed-up puppeteer whose son, Edgar, goes missing. Devastated, Vincent clings to his son's drawings of a blue monster puppet named Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on television, his son will return.
The series is a dark and surreal exploration of grief, guilt, and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy.
Benedict and Ivan Howe playing Father and Son
Dupe lent a lot of invaluable support during a challenging production. The high quality of work and proactive and collaborative approach to production processes led us to awarding close to 300 shots by the end of the series, and would do again!
VFX Producer / Post Supervisor
Sister Pictures
A suspicious wound?
80's haircut by dupe
Joining the team when the show was well underway we were brought on initially to help assist with some basic wound cosmetics but we soon became a key player moving on to delivering almost 300 shots. The work included wound work, wigs, 2.5D reprojections and an extensive amount of TV work.
Screen inserts
An example TV insert
For the TV inserts in ERIC we needed to match the look and technical aspects of a 1980s CRT, this meant matching not only the luminance and phosphors of the TV but also creating any effect of distortion from VHS tape manipulations (fast forward/rewind etc).
Jean-Louis (VFX Supervisor) had shot amazing references with in-camera footage for the TVs used and it gave us a perfect baseline of how it needed to look, we researched multiple references of 1980s VHS effects until we hit one that was preferred. Our comp RND team matched the desired look (scanlines, colour, distortion and glitching) before rolling this out into all the shots.
McKinley Belcher III as Detective Ledroit
Gaby Hoffman
An example seamless composite from our work on Eric
