The Old Man Season 2
For the second season of FX’s critically acclaimed series The Old Man, VFX Supervisor Thomas Montminy-Brodeur led our artists in crafting 85 invisible visual effects shots – including muzzle flashes, ambient smoke and blood – to support and enhance the action-packed storyline.
The team went all out to ensure the visual effects were grounded in realism; for a shot where
blood was supposed to be flowing on an uneven ground surface, the team filmed and shot a
blood element with a spot light, recreating that same uneven ground, so that it would perfectly
match the plate.
On the collaboration process, VFX Supervisor Thomas Montminy-Brodeur comments: “The
client VFX Supervisor, Erik Henry, and I have been creatively collaborating for the past decade.
So we understand very well the style that we want to bring a shot and we are on the same
wavelength about what a shot should look like, which makes the creative process efficient and
enjoyable.”