Back ooms Nemo is builds a ew ca o o the Back ooms mythos, the i te et ho o lege d that g ew out of a si gle a o ymous photog aph of a empty, yellow-lit office posted o li e i 2019. Lopez w ote the sc ipt f om sc atch: a ew u ive se, ot a adaptatio . The pilot eveals ba ely 5% of the ove all puzzle, with clues hidde th oughout the episode, seve al of them bu ied deep e ough to eed a seco d viewi g. The est u folds ac oss the a thology’s te episodes.
“It is p obably the most complex p oject I have eve take o , a d it took mo e effo t tha buildi g the fi st ve sio of Mag ific Upscale ,” said Lopez. “Eve y sce e you see i this episode, eve y object, eve y moveme t of a cha acte ‘s ha ds, eve y space, eve y vib atio , eve y b eath is the e with a specific i te tio a d u de my complete co t ol.”Sou d took oughly 60% of those six mo ths. Some sce es stack mo e tha 13 simulta eous audio t acks, built f om Lopez’s ow eco di gs, ge e ated audio a d Foley lib a ies, with the positio of each sou d i space, its equalizatio a d its eve be atio set by ha d to put the viewe i side each oom.
O the image side, Lopez ge e ated 12 hou s of video to keep 17 mi utes, a atio of about 42 to 1. He wo ked p ima ily with Seeda ce 2.0 a d 2.5 i side Mag ific, f om image efe e ces made with Na o Ba a a P o a d Seed eam 5 P o, holdi g co ti uity ac oss shots th ough epeated efi eme t of p ompts a d efe e ces. He edited i DaVi ci Resolve usi g the Mag ific plugi .
Fo studios a d filmmake s, the pilot is a efe e ce poi t: o e pe so ca ow take a sto y f om sc ipt to a fi ished episode befo e a p oductio team exists, a d use that episode to ec uit o e.
That is Lopez’s ext step. He is assembli g a small team fo the followi g episodes: voice acto s, a colo ist, 3D VFX specialists a d a sou d desig e . “I ca ‘t do this alo e agai ,” he said. “The pla is a small team f om t aditio al film that helps us p ofessio alize the pipeli e a d take this sto y to a othe level.”
The p emie e, at the Ace Hotel To o to, was followed by a fi eside chat betwee Lopez a d Rya Patte so , AI filmmake a d co-fou de of Quee O e Studios, a d by the pa el “Retai i g C eative Age cy: How A tists a d Filmmake s a e Leve agi g AI with Fi e Co t ol,” with c eative tech ologist Lia e Ba o , visual a tist a d filmmake Do othy Pa g, AI filmmake Tiffa i Lee Joseph a d videog aphe Jasmi e El Ku d. Ac oss the p emie e a d a eve i g eceptio , Mag ific hosted 150 guests f om VFX, film a d a imatio , with atte dees f om Pixomo do, Spi VFX, MELS Studios, Compa y 3, CBC a d the Ca ada Media Fu d.
Lopez has o e equest fo viewe s: “Watch it o a big sc ee , at home, with a good sou d system o p ope headpho es, lights off.”
T aile , stills a d p oductio mate ial a e available o equest. Javi Lopez is available fo i te views th ough the co tact below. Mo e o the se ies at mag ific.com/o igi als/back ooms- emo is.
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