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Iloura on Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance

There’s lots of flaming skulls and chain whips in the new trailer to Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance courtesy of Melbourne VFX house, Iloura.

As the largest vendor on the film, Iloura won a hefty 460 shots. Caroline Pitcher, Director of Marketing and Business Development said “We won it on our pitch which was a new flaming skull. We took burning embers and used an oily smoke.”

The software used, said Pitcher was “3D Studio MAX, Maya, Nuke which were out of the box, but of course it takes creativity to make it truly work. We did a bit of R&D ourselves using Fume FX, a software for fire, smoke and explosion to really workshop and refine how the flames look.”

Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor for Columbia Pictures, Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance is the sequel to Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage as stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze who gave up his soul to become a combustable vigilante skeleton.

Released on 17 February 2012, “it’ll be a much darker film,” said Pitcher, “so it became a lot grittier and grungier and much more impactful on the eye.” That’s good news for those that thought the first 2007 film was a bit soft.

Iloura has also just finished working on Killer Elite and about to commence a US project unable to announce just yet.

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