FX's for Fortunes Mine
Hello everyone. My name is Richard Tepavchevich and I'm the visual effects supervisor for Fortunes Mine. I've spent the last 2 months drawing pictures of caves, and traps and treasures helping James and Geoff realize their vision of Fortunes Mine. During the camp I will be the on-set effects supervisor making sure we get the cool shots we need to make the cave look as real as possible. We have big plans for the effects. It is going to be one awesome project. We have full size caves and miniatures and we will be using advanced filming techniques mixed with green screens to make Fortunes Mine and it is going to be a very exciting project for everyone involved. Along with my job comes our Production Designer, Jennifer "Hollywood" Schafer. While I help with construction and breakdown of the effects shots she handles set decoration, painting, paper mache, plaster, building and gathering props to bring life to our cave.
Anyway I am very excited, and here are some pictures of the construction process so far. There are lots more built pieces but for now I'll just show one actual walls.
The frame is built
out of 1"x 2" wood.
Then 1" hexagonal
stucco mesh is stretched
across it and warped
into "rock" shapes.
(The mesh is a little hard
to see here. It is the very
faint silvery screen
on top of the frame)
Then we used
red rosin paper and
heavy brown paper
mixed with water,
glue and wallpaper paste
to make our
paper mache coat.
Finally the cave wall
is painted.
A dark base coat
is applied.
Then a lighter brown
is applied sparsely
on top of the base.
And finally a
very light brown
is dry brushed
on top of that.