The Chronicles of Narnia Film Poster

Click here to see the first "official film poster" for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe." I am currently working on the visual effects for this film, as a Lighting Technical Director, at Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles. The poster looks quite representative of the work completed thus far at the studio and I think is a fair take on what the film "feels like." There are some lovely, dreamy shots that really do feel like "another world, similar to our own..." Although, in this poster, the lion is obviously a retouched photograph and as I am sure the majority of readers who follow the visual effects business already know, the film will feature a fully computer generated lion. He has to talk and emote for goodness sake! Some of the final shots completed thus far have people saying that this work will be the first to challenge the level of achievement on the Gollum character that WETA Digital produced for "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. In fact, a funny story from the work Rhythm and Hues did for the film trailer was that the production editor of the trailer (presumably a well qualified individual) asked the production visual effects supervisor "how'd you get the lion choreographed like that?" Har, har. We'll see how it all shakes down. There is still lots to be done before the Christmas release date! and Gollum put the bar pretty damned high on the shelf. Back to work for Donnie Walsho!