Here is a great article by CartoonBrew that talks to those who made the music video and the whole process.

Below is the video

Check out the video below

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBC5bwV5y0
For more info head to the page about it in their site here.

Back to 1999, to a classic film, …and to an effect that introduced mainstream audiences to moving through a frozen moment in time.

Prior to The Matrix coming out, Michel Gondry was the only other contemporary live action film-maker to toy with using a multiple camera set-up for freezing time. He had dabbled in a mix of timeslicing and morphing in the Rolling Stones music video “Like a Rolling Stone”, then in 1996 he did an advert for Smirnov Vodka where he used the camera array to freeze the action and move through the frozen scene (more similar to how Matrix would do it a few years later). You can see the advert below.

There were a number of other music videos and other cheats done between then and The Matrix, but The Matrix’s technique would redefine the standard (and see it being used for everything from TV shows to TV Adverts to music concerts). For a good rundown of the history that this effect came from, check out the wiki entry here.

The Wachowski siblings adapted the technique, …the biggest changes they made were having the ability to have motion cameras rolling at the start and end of the frozen sequence, plus going right around the subject (rather than a small arc).

Here is the raw passes, right through to the final effect seen in the film:

…and here is a great video on how they did it.

This is going back in time a bit, but in 2009 Phillips produced this rather impressive ‘frozen time’ clip as an advert for their Cinema 21:9 LCD TVs. It is a great reference for fake bullet-time.

The clip is a 2min 19second continuous steadicam shot through a heist gone bad (with clown faced cops, police and action a plenty, all frozen in time). Think of it as a bullet-time shot, ….over two minutes long, …and impossible shot, beautifully executed through the use of a lot of tricks, both practical (from people holding position very still, on wires, etc) and digital (from removing wires to full cg elements and characters). If you want to read more about it you can see more on wiki here. Below is the advert, and then underneath I have put a couple of behind the scenes videos.

This first video is the official Phillips behind the scenes clip.

Next is an FXGuide TV item on the making of the advert (click here, or on the logo, to go see the high resolution, original version of the item below)

Going a bit retro here but thought it high time to delve back into some of the past films weta has worked on.

First up is a collection of before and after clips

CGW – Computer Graphics World has a nice article on the various aspects of the film that pushed vfx tech to new levels.

CGArchitect has a great interview with Chris White on how they proceduraly built and textured New York City circa 1933:

Here is an FXShow podcast looking at the fx of the film:

…and finally, a great piece from Graham Edwards on with Cinefex blog about the making of the 1933 original film:

Below are a few links to articles about the making of the second Captain America film which contained 2500 effects shots.

To go to any of the items mentioned below, just click on the logo underneath it.

FXGuide has a good long article running over the effects for The Winter Solider.

The Hollywood reporter did a short interview with Russell Earl, VFX supervisor at Industrial Light + Magic (who handled about 900 shots on the show).

Popsugar also did a short interview with visual effects supervisor Dan Deleeuw about the film.

VFX World has a couple of articles on the film.

First is a rundown of the redesigned Helicarrier.

They also talked to Monty Granito about the previz.