Sneak Peek

Director: Don Bitters III
Producer: Christopher Jennings, Eric Edmonds
Production Company: Space Dogs BDE, LLC

In the distant future, somewhere in the outer reaches of the known universe, a down on his luck bounty hunter and captain of the Mongrel, Lee Venator risks it all to capture Canis Teumessian, the most wanted criminal in the Galaxy. However, turning her over to the Galactic Authority will prove to be far more challenging than he and his crew had bargained for as they are being pursued by other nefarious bounty hunters, government agencies and Canis’s old crew, The Wolves.  Lee and Canis are forced to work together to survive an intergalactic plot far bigger than a simple bounty.

Escape Velocity was created using a combination of virtual production and traditional filmmaking techniques. Many months of discussion and preproduction culminated in bringing the director, Don Bitters III, vision of this story and universe to life through a merger of real life actors with realtime 3D environments rendered in real time in Unreal Engine. The worlds around the talent changed in parallax and perspective in tandem with physical camera and lens movement. Here is a sneak peek of some stills and behind the scenes pictures from the production. An interview with the director about the production can be found at the link below.

WRITEUP/ARTICLE ON THE FILMMAKING PROCESS

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