UK-based facility Peerless use mokey on several vfx shots in new Bond film

20th November 2006 - Imagineer Systems, the UK-based innovators of next-generation vfx tools, is pleased to announce that their tool mokey™ was part of the major vfx work done on the 21st James Bond movie, “Casino Royale”.

According to Paul Docherty, Digital Visual Effects Supervisor at the UK-based facility Peerless, this Bond-movie was a “return to gritty realism, so the VFX content had to be pretty much invisible. There are in fact more than 600 effects shots in the movie but hopefully they are executed in such a way as to merge seamlessly into the ongoing action.”

mokey was mainly used for the Skybus miniature shots, wherein a large scale model of a fictitious super-airliner leaves the hangar and moves onto the runway, just as the villainous Carlos tries to blow it (and a large crowd of spectators) to smithereens.

“Imagineer's software helped us to carefully merge the miniature hangar, miniature plane, multiple green screen live action figures and a number of CG and shot elements with a minimum of fuss," says a pleased Paul Docherty.

“We are pleased to be able to add the Bond legacy to our growing list of blockbuster feature credits”, says Allan Jaenicke, CEO of Imagineer Systems. “Peerless have done a fantastic job on this project and we are pleased that they gave us the opportunity to supply them with the necessary tool to do the job to the high quality standard required.”