Percy Jackson

This kid flies around NYC in winged shoes while carrying a lightning bolt. I don’t know how he does that, but I do know how we created the fake city that appears to be underneath him, because I was a matte painter at Digital Domain. First off I stitched pan and tile photographs that were shot from roof tops over Manhattan. We then sprayed as many of these pixels over as much building geometry as we possibly could, however there were still a LOT of stylish alterations to be made in order to please the client. Enormous sized stormy cloud paintings were also pain stakingly produced, as too were bricks and windows and awnings and streets and windows and bricks…