Brainstorm Digital

At my high school all the seniors were required to do either 40 hours of community service or do 80 hours at an internship. I chose the latter. I interned at Brainstorm Digital, a VFX house based in NYC that has worked on films such as Boardwalk Empire, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Wolf Of Wall Street. I learned more about the visual effects industry in the short time that I interned there than I had in my entire life up to that point.

Not only did I learn about the industry, but I also learned about what each shot took to make.

The program that they use there as their main compositor is something called Nuke, short for New Compositor. Nuke is node based, which means that it works as a series of inputs and outputs, as opposed to the traditional layers. 

Fabricating the Flash

The Flash is quickly becoming one of CW's most popular shows and it's easy to see why. As an avid Flash fan, the show is fun and witty and gives me just the right amount of Flash to fulfill my DC Comics craving. The people who are responsible for creating the Flash, though, haven't really gotten the credit that they deserve.

The company that creates the VFX for Flash and also edits it, is Encore Hollywood, but more specifically Encore VFX and Encore Post. This article goes into more depth about how they construct the Flash and how he is given his "trademark blu." There are plenty of other videos that breakdown the VFX in the show.

It's definitely worth the read and the show is definitely something that is worth watching, in my completely 100% unbiased opinion (ok, maybe a little biased).