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mike.wong | pixel.surgeon

Devil’s Pass

Devil’s Pass (aka Dyatlov Pass), directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Exorist: The Beginning) was a project I did not contribute directly. However, Celluloid VFX, a studio in Berlin used an early prototype of ‘Caustix’ Nuke plug-in in this project for creating a portal effect.

The portal effect in the movie realized with the ‘caustix’ plug-in prototype.

Celluloid VFX was a kind supporter of our plug-ins and the first time I saw ‘Caustix’ running on a machine which was on the other side of the planet was unforgettable.

Caustix plug-in prototype running on a Nuke workstation in Celluloid VFX studio in Berlin

  • Pixel-space Diffusion Model from scratch
  • Resonance for Nuke
  • Escher for Nuke plug-in suite
  • Deep Residual Denoising for MC Rendering (research publication)
  • Conquer: Lahad Datu (TakLuk)
  • VigGen 02 – Unseen (Runway Gen3-Alpha)