Visual effects are not just for the big studios anymore. This filmmaker proves it. Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s The Wanting Mare, a micro-budget fantasy epic over eight years in the making, is finally being released today, Feb. 5, on VOD. With over 500 VFX shots on a modest budget, shot over several years in parking lots, warehouses, and friends’ kitchens, the immersive world of Anmaere comes to life in this 30-minute VFX breakdown of The Wanting Mare. The making of The Wanting Mare is a testament to the resourcefulness of contemporary filmmakers like Bateman and the results you can achieve when you never give up on your movie. The drive, effort, and vision combined to create an immersive world in the way they’ve done here is an impressive feat. Car interiors and backseats would be foregone for benches with cardboard flats for windows, house porches would be built in the middle of the room without the house, placed next to ship interiors made out of reused plywood and paint. Each set was built with the pieces of the previously disassembled ones. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 5 February, 2021