Indie Horror Visual Effects Case Study: Forever Home
Characters struggle through the energy barrier surrounding the haunted house in Forever Home. Move the slider to toggle between before and after.
Project Type
Feature Film
Client
Amoroma Productions
Director
Sean Oliver
Producers
Drew Leatham
Sean Oliver
“With anything creative there are always shortcuts that get us to a final product quicker at the expense of quality, and we’re used to having to take those shortcuts just to reach our goals. But Foxtrot didn’t take any shortcuts working with us. They were true collaborators on the film in every way and greatly elevated our film.”
A young couple unwittingly spends all their money on a new home only to discover a terrible secret that puts not only their lives, but their afterlives at risk. - From the film’s official website.
Foxtrot X-Ray provided over 100 visual effects shots for Third Productions’ comedy horror feature Forever Home, including the above “energy barrier” which surrounds the film’s haunted house, and lots of other ghostly effects to sell the reality of the film’s premise. A key component of the film is floating gloves that a ghost steals in order to be seen by the humans in the film. To achieve this effect, we started with someone in a green suit wearing red gloves. In some situations we rotoscoped the gloves, in other cases we were able to pull a chroma key on the suit and slot in the clean plate that was also shot on set in preparation for the green suit to be removed. The energy barrier to separate the ghostly world from the mortal world consisted of proprietary energy effects, flame effects, and proprietary burning fabric effects. To ensure that the effect was going to read as real, the on-set team used practical smoke effects emitted by tubes running up the actor’s clothing.
Watch the Forever Home episode of the VFX For Indies Podcast for more insights into the making of the VFX for this movie!
Other projects featuring similar effects by Foxtrot X-Ray include Miss Krystle’s “Monster”, Archenemy, and Future48.
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