Special Effects in Shake
The special effects for each scene in Sweet Fanny Adams in Hyperspace Eden were rendered using Shake. This is the same programme used on popular fantasy films such as the Lord of the Rings triology.
Each element in the composition, including raw footage, masks, lighting and shadows, and CGI, is represented visually in the Shake tree. The editor can preview the video at any stage in the process, and output intermediate stages if they wish.
Most of the editing took place before any special effects had been added. The film consists of approximately three and a half hours of video. At 25 frames per second, this equates to about 315,000 frames. The system used by Fifty Nine took between one and fifteen seconds to create one frame of finished video, meaning that the rendering process from Shake took four or five days in total!
