Dupe brings magic to this 80s thriller set in New York
Overview
This gripping miniseries stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a desperate father battling his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.
McKinley Belcher III owning it as Ledroit
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
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.
Gabby Hoffmann as Cassie
Eric and his son
Wig cleanup
