So do a beach, a boardwalk and long-gone hotels and billboards.
There's almost no trace of 1920s Atlantic City in the real place anymore, but in a Brooklyn studio, a Cresskill guy named Glenn Allen has been re-creating the Shore resort in its roaring heyday.
He and fellow visual effects producer Richard Friedlander, his partner in Brainstorm Digital, have been immersed for more than a year in "Boardwalk Empire," the HBO drama series from Emmy-winning "Sopranos" writer-producer Terence Winter and Oscar winner Martin Scorsese, who directed tonight's pilot.,We supply cheap gucci,cheap lv,nike af1 etc.
Brainstorm Digital's team of about 30 has been Jersey-fying various New York locales, including an old-fashioned-looking boardwalk set in Greenpoint that Winter has called "the nerve center of this universe." Built on what had been a parking lot, it features a 300-foot boardwalk, Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy and other storefronts, billboards for Piedmont Cigarettes and the like, and a vertically truncated replica of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where the main character, Nucky Thompson, lives.
Using computer-generated imagery (CGI), blue screen production plates and set extensions, Brainstorm Digital has lengthened the 300-foot boardwalk by miles, elongated piers, made the Ritz-Carlton taller and added ocean, beach,,Our company has opened five years, we have our own shops.women handbags skies and background buildings, while replacing the real backdrop — the Manhattan skyline in one direction and Greenpoint in others, as well as the empty big-box containers, painted blue, that served as a blue screen.
All these critical, labor-intensive efforts — and Brainstorm Digital will largely be unsung.
"Our work is sort of invisible," Allen says. "It's not like 'Star Wars,' where the effects are highlighted.Engraved on the frame on every pair of ed hardy sunglasses, is the band's name, Dior. In our case, it's supposed to look totally, completely real."
Technically speaking, "photo real," and the challenge was complicated by the fact that there are few, if any, true-color photographs of Atlantic City from the 1920s — although there were black and white shots that were hand-tinted.
"We sort of had to guess a little bit,Unfortunately, when shopping for cheap true religion you must be aware that there are faux." says Allen, who worked closely with series historical consultant Ed McGinty, who found some home movies from that era, and production designer Bob Shaw, who designed the sets and established the show's overall look. "We did some research, we saw some paintings of the period, to determine colors. We worked with [Shaw] to create a color palette for us to use."
"Boardwalk Empire," inspired by Nelson Johnson's non-fiction book, begins on Jan. 16, 1920, when Prohibition went into effect. Oceanfront Atlantic City became a nest for bootleggers, who operated with impunity thanks to Nucky Thompson, played by Steve Buscemi.
The character was inspired by the legendary Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the county treasurer who ran Atlantic City for almost 30 years, beginning in 1913. He hobnobbed with New Jersey governors and senators while doing business with mobsters like Chicago's Al Capone.
"Nucky wore two hats the way no one [else] in American history was able to wear two hats," says Nelson Johnson (no relation to Nucky). "He was a very powerful politician, and at the same time he was a member of organized crime. … And not only did he merge these two rings of power into one [for] himself, but [for] the entire town."
There's almost no trace of 1920s Atlantic City in the real place anymore, but in a Brooklyn studio, a Cresskill guy named Glenn Allen has been re-creating the Shore resort in its roaring heyday.
He and fellow visual effects producer Richard Friedlander, his partner in Brainstorm Digital, have been immersed for more than a year in "Boardwalk Empire," the HBO drama series from Emmy-winning "Sopranos" writer-producer Terence Winter and Oscar winner Martin Scorsese, who directed tonight's pilot.,We supply cheap gucci,cheap lv,nike af1 etc.
Brainstorm Digital's team of about 30 has been Jersey-fying various New York locales, including an old-fashioned-looking boardwalk set in Greenpoint that Winter has called "the nerve center of this universe." Built on what had been a parking lot, it features a 300-foot boardwalk, Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy and other storefronts, billboards for Piedmont Cigarettes and the like, and a vertically truncated replica of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where the main character, Nucky Thompson, lives.
Using computer-generated imagery (CGI), blue screen production plates and set extensions, Brainstorm Digital has lengthened the 300-foot boardwalk by miles, elongated piers, made the Ritz-Carlton taller and added ocean, beach,,Our company has opened five years, we have our own shops.women handbags skies and background buildings, while replacing the real backdrop — the Manhattan skyline in one direction and Greenpoint in others, as well as the empty big-box containers, painted blue, that served as a blue screen.
All these critical, labor-intensive efforts — and Brainstorm Digital will largely be unsung.
"Our work is sort of invisible," Allen says. "It's not like 'Star Wars,' where the effects are highlighted.Engraved on the frame on every pair of ed hardy sunglasses, is the band's name, Dior. In our case, it's supposed to look totally, completely real."
Technically speaking, "photo real," and the challenge was complicated by the fact that there are few, if any, true-color photographs of Atlantic City from the 1920s — although there were black and white shots that were hand-tinted.
"We sort of had to guess a little bit,Unfortunately, when shopping for cheap true religion you must be aware that there are faux." says Allen, who worked closely with series historical consultant Ed McGinty, who found some home movies from that era, and production designer Bob Shaw, who designed the sets and established the show's overall look. "We did some research, we saw some paintings of the period, to determine colors. We worked with [Shaw] to create a color palette for us to use."
"Boardwalk Empire," inspired by Nelson Johnson's non-fiction book, begins on Jan. 16, 1920, when Prohibition went into effect. Oceanfront Atlantic City became a nest for bootleggers, who operated with impunity thanks to Nucky Thompson, played by Steve Buscemi.
The character was inspired by the legendary Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the county treasurer who ran Atlantic City for almost 30 years, beginning in 1913. He hobnobbed with New Jersey governors and senators while doing business with mobsters like Chicago's Al Capone.
"Nucky wore two hats the way no one [else] in American history was able to wear two hats," says Nelson Johnson (no relation to Nucky). "He was a very powerful politician, and at the same time he was a member of organized crime. … And not only did he merge these two rings of power into one [for] himself, but [for] the entire town."
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