NYC production studio since 1996 providing design, effects & new development for the film, televisio
NYC production studio since 1996 providing animation, design, visual effects & new
development for the film, television & advertising industries. We’re a smart & friendly
group of passionate creatives who stay up late to help entertainment & marketing
professionals tell their stories in memorable ways.
Operating as usual
Mechanism Digital is proud to have worked on VFX for IMAX film Wings Over Water earning the Giant Screen Cinema Association’s award for 2022 Best Visual Effects 2022.
https://wingsoverwaterfilm.com/
https://www.giantscreencinema.com/Awards
I did some sciencing, I got creative, and I would do it all again.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-vfx-studio-lucien-harriot/
A day in the life of a VFX studio is not that different from other industries. There are budgets, Zoom and Teams meetings, a cross-section of personalities — and a lot of quick problem solving.
Embellishing critical frames helps films pop.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/intersection-practical-digital-lucien-harriot/
New positions promise to propel Mechanism Digital to the stratosphere.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forecast-summer-growth-lucien-harriot
Virtual Teams will be social if you let them
https://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/6932404392079867904/
A visual effects supervisor is like post insurance for your shoot..
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vfx-eye-budget-guy-lucien-harriot
Sometimes my work takes me to interesting places, like movie sets. I work on set as a consultant, specifically a “VFX supervisor.
Proper post-production pipeline practices produce fewer perilous pitfalls.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving-money-any-cost-lucien-harriot
New York has a soft spot for independent films, and Mechanism Digital is proud to have worked on so many of them. First, some disambiguation: “Independent” does not always mean “low-budget.
Guild rules, status, and careers all come into play behind the scenes of every opening credit sequence.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/credit-where-due-lucien-harriot
Opening credits are an opportunity for directors to set the mood for the whole film.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/credit-check-lucien-harriot
Opening credits are a big deal in Hollywood. As creatives, we see credits as a means to set a mood for the story with the choice of fonts, as well as the placement and composition of some transitions.
Voiceover production considers everything — from tone to timber.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-reason-lucien-harriot/
VO recording sessions are easy once the right pieces are in place.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-experience-lucien-harriot
At Mechanism Digital, we do a lot of voiceovers for corporate communications videos. These could be explainers, medical videos, promotions for conferences, or corporate-sponsored research.
We are proud to have been a part of "Catch the fair One".
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/catch-the-fair-one-trailer-1234689614/
Exclusive: Boxer Kali Reis delivers a bruising, Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance in the film, out next month.
Unreal Engine used for Matrix Demo.
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/matrix-awakens-epic-games-unreal-engine-5-demo-1235129348/
Is it real — or is it Unreal? Epic Games worked with Warner Bros., “The Matrix Resurrections” director Lana Wachowski to create a “technical demo” set in the world of …
Cloud-Based Visual Effects and Animation Production
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/movie-sky-clients-lucien-harriot
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was in the news recently with an outage that affected Disney+ and Netflix. Mechanism Digital uses AWS, but our studio was not affected by the outage.
A five-minute conversation can save five thousand dollars. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-shoot-ask-questions-later-lucien-harriot/?published=t
Making tough decisions about your animation is easier when you’ve got a proven process to follow.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6868936312313925632?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A6868936312313925632%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29
Making tough decisions about your animation is easier when you’ve got a proven process to follow....
EXCLUSIVE: HBO announced the upcoming documentary Black And Missing from Emmy Award winners Geeta Gandbhir and Soledad O’Brien that will focus on Black missing persons cases. Black And Missin…
There’s a reason why ads for new drugs spend so much time on the side effects.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/footnotes-fair-balance-lucien-harriot
In my last piece, I wrote about how the complexity of the body can be explained with animations — but that wasn’t the whole story. Within the medical animation space there are rules and regulations that govern much of the content, including those notoriously awkward lists of side effects in drug...
Narrative Storytelling - From Hollywood to Healthcare
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-hollywood-healthcare-lucien-harriot/
Working with movie studios for 25 years has taught us how to hone our narrative storytelling skills in order to boil a story down to its elements. This allows us to advance a plot in a 30-second timeframe, as is commonly seen in television commercials.
In corporate communications, complex biological processes can be represented in clear animations that bear little resemblance to the actual physiology inside all of us. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/educating-disease-awareness-using-animation-lucien-harriot
If you stuck a camera inside the human body, you wouldn’t see much more than tissue pressed up against the lens, AKA “the meat wall,” looking a bit gross. That’s why the medical community understands that sometimes clarity needs to take precedence over medical accuracy in corporate and consu...
https://nypost.com/2021/09/16/espn-promotes-mets-doc-with-lenny-dykstra-cursing-video/
“SportsCenter” aired a clip from the documentary Wednesday which featured 20 seconds of former Mets center fielder Lenny Dykstra spewing F-bombs.
Digital booths find new life online with closure of medical congresses.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vr-venue-versatility-lucien-harriot
For the duration of the pandemic, healthcare congresses — normally hosting 50,000 attendees each — were shuttered. Doctors could not attend educational panels in person, resulting in the familiar trajectory of having all meetings over Zoom.
https://www.bannisterandassociates.com/ AI can add you into a movie trailer.
Reminiscence – Now Playing In Theaters & HBO Max
Background screens come in many colors — are you sure green is the right one for you?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-use-green-screen-lucien-harriot/
One sight that’s ubiquitous in behind-the-scenes footage from movie sets is the green screen. Green screens are a way to insert backgrounds into a scene while avoiding the time-consuming and expensive process of rotoscoping (painting digitally frame by frame) around people.
https://www.bannisterandassociates.com/
Reminiscence – In Theaters & HBO Max August 20
Lessons learned in 25 years.
Lessons learned in 25 years....
During Facebook's second quarter 2021 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed its Ray-Ban smart glasses will be coming sometime this year.
Cure for the Common Conference
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cure-common-conference-mechanism-digital/
Marketing agencies that pivoted during the pandemic have embraced solutions that are likely to outlast the public health emergency. In innovating for the pandemic, pharmaceutical marketing agencies have found solutions that are likely to outlast the public health emergency.
https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/how-to-implement-vr-headsets-into-your-business-in-2021/
XR Today reports on the latest Extended Reality news from around the globe. Including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. XR News
In an industry of acronyms, medical animations must follow the letter of the law. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culturally-competent-lucien-harriot/
XR Today reports on the latest Extended Reality news from around the globe. Including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. XR News
We are thrilled to announce that CATCH THE FAIR ONE won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at this year's Tribeca Film Festival!
https://tribecafilm.com/news/the-2021-audience-award-winners-are
Audience Award winners for the 20th-anniversary festival also include online premieres that were a part of Tribeca At Home, Tribeca’s virtual festival.
Werewolves Within Premieres Tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival!
Check it out.
https://tribecafilm.com/films/werewolves-within-2021
In Josh Ruben’s video game-inspired horror-comedy, a newly assigned forest ranger checks into a quaint Vermont inn just as a snowstorm cuts him and the eccentric townsfolk off from civilization. Yet frigid weather isn’t their biggest concern—that’d be the bloodthirsty creature picking them o...
Check it out before the 23rd.
Catch the Fair One.
https://watch.tribecafilm.com/landing/839002434
On-Demand Viewing Portal
Producers and directors used to run from portraying text messages in films — until they got the message that there is no place to hide. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teasing-great-performance-out-texting-lucien-harriot/?trackingId=v6JhAc5jT3a6vMBywDncFA%3D%3D
Over the last 15 years, the use of texting and social media as essential plot elements in films has grown exponentially. At first, filmmakers were hesitant and pushed back.
We’re thrilled to see two of our films at Tribeca this year, and look forward to seeing you there in person.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tribeca-film-festival-double-feature-lucien-harriot/
Congratulations to all cast and crew with films premiering in the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Mechanism Digital is very proud to have two features in this year’s festival, Catch the Fair One and Werewolves Within, in which our NYC studio supervised on-set VFX, designed, and executed the Visual Eff...
Proud to have worked on this great short film. Check out the screening.
Prologue is a short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband wants. With the unexpect...
https://www.manhattanff.com/view-screening/1426
Prologue is a short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband wants.
Nice visualization of augmented reality glasses: https://youtu.be/IutVq6cPBX0?t=120
Learn more about Substance: https://adobe.ly/2NiKwqPScott Belsky invites us to ponder what life could look like in the world of AR and welcomes Chantel Benso...
Congratulations to all crew with films premiering in the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Mechanism Digital is very proud to have two films in this years festival, Catch the Fair One and Werewolves Within, on which our NYC studio supervised, designed and executed the Visual Effects for both. Working remotely in 2020 had its challenges including limited access to working in the studio and having to pivot our means of team/client communication. Our staff enthusiastically rose to the occasion and gave their all to help make these films shine. We wish success to all the films and the early return to this industry being back 100%.
Catch The Fair One. https://tribecafilm.com/films/catch-the-fair-one-2021
Werewolves Within. https://tribecafilm.com/films/werewolves-within-2021
In this absorbing revenge thriller executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, a Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
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