INGENUITY STUDIOS PLAYS THE VFX HIGH NOTES IN CAPTIVATING SOLOS

Designating each episode to explore the human experience of one of seven individuals – portrayed by Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Mackie and Constance Wu – is Solos creator and executive producer David Weil. The anthology series that streams on Amazon Prime Video takes place in different time periods resulting in Amazon Studios VFX Executive Juliette Yager partnering with primary vendor Ingenuity Studios on 512 shots that include a green orb, CG pool, twins and floating chalk.

“Solos was a unique project for us for a number of reasons,” states David Lebensfeld, Founding Partner and VFX Supervisor at Ingenuity Studios. “It was our first foray back into television production during COVID. We’d been part of numerous commercials and music videos that were filmed during COVID, but this was our first series. Solos also has the distinction of being our first anthology television series, each episode existing in the Solos universe but very much unique from one another. We have become accustomed over the years to creating effects that carry through episodes and seasons, so this was a nice change of pace.”

Highly-detailed previs was provided by Production Designer Ruth Ammon and Supervising Art Director Michael Allen Glover. “Their team created wonderful renderings and walkthroughs of their designs and set builds,” remarks Matthew Poliquin, Executive Producer at Ingenuity Studios. “This was fantastic for us as it allowed us to virtually scout all of the sets, helping maintain a smaller crew footprint during early days of COVID production. Their 3D set designs also helped a great deal with both the concept work and match move for CG elements in the ‘Sasha’ episode.”