Continuing our relationship with MTV Networks and Tenth Planet Productions--having recently completed effects work on the 1998 MTV Movie Awards--BFTR was enlisted to provide five key visual effects shots to The 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. Host Ben Stiller would appear in a mock documentary as Trent McJivvers, an original member of the teeny-bop music sensation, The Backstreet Boys. We were approached to integrate Stiller into real Backstreet Boys concert footage. Visual effects supervisor Todd Vaziri helped select useable concert footage shots in which to insert Stiller. The actor was shot against a greenscreen performing dance moves in synch with the Backstreet Boys. Then, in the timespan of only two days, artists Art Lee and Martha Soehendra cranked out the four composites using Adobe After Effects, realistically integrating Stiller into the concert footage. As McJivvers gets booted from the band, he starts his own group with Paul Swadley (Andy Dick). As part of their first music video, BFTR provided the cheesy morph shot that cycles between Dick and Stiller--a morph that parodies a similar transition in a real-life Backstreet Boys music video. Martha accomplished the morph with Alias|Wavefront's Composer. Download the breakdown of one of the concert shots, featuring clips of the original footage, the greenscreen footage, and the final composite. Quicktime, 1.5MB Download the morph shot, featuring four morphs between Ben Stiller and Andy Dick. Quicktime, 1.8MB 1998 MTV Video Music Awards ©1998 MTV Networks 1998 VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS Visual Effects by BANNED FROM THE RANCH ENTERTAINMENT Visual Effects Producer GAIL WISE Visual Effects Supervisor TODD VAZIRI Digital Artists MARTHA SOEHENDRA ART LEE Visual Effects Editor DEBRA SANDERSON Greenscreen Unit Technical Supervisor GLENN CANNON Video Assist JOSH SAETA Banned From The Ranch Entertainment Home Page General Information: info@bftr.com