Re: [TCML] Tesla coils in films, a little help wanted

["Drake Schutt" <drake89@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Coffee and cigaretts with jack and meg white of the rock band 'the
white stripes' has a scene where jack talks about his small tesla coil
for a few minutes.                 Regards, drake

On 8/29/08, Jeff W. Parisse <workshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kVA Effects provided arcs for:
>
> Film:
> XXX - Vin Diesel (Digital Domaign used an SG10-TC to "motion capture" arcs
> and present them as CGI)
> The Prestige - Hugh Jackman (arcs were real and photo composited (using
> Discrete Logic software) to get the "look").
>
> Jeff
>
>
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> Subject: [TCML] Tesla coils in films, a little help wanted
>
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm in the process of making a list of MOVIES where Tesla coils appear
>> either only the coil
>> itself, sparks from a coil or both. I would also like to know
>> WHO(company/person) was
>> responsible for the effects/coils.
>>
>> At present I have the following movies on my list :
>>
>> The Prestige: AFAIK the sparks are computer generated but I'm not 100%
>> sure.
>>
>> xXx: Sparks produced by kVA effects. I'm also not 100% sure about this.
>>
>> Star Trek:The Movie: I have no information on who produced the sparks
>> here.
>>
>> The Entity: Sparks by Bill Wysock. No doubt about this information.
>>
>> Terminator 2: Roumors say that Mark Barton has produced the effects but in
>>
>> the end
>> titles a company called "The Artificial Lighting Company" appear and next
>> to it the name
>> Ed Angell. I can find no verification if Mark was involved in this so I
>> have to assume the
>> information in the film is correct.
>>
>> Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix: Sparks are "sampled" from coils
>>
>> by HVFX.
>> It says so on their site so I have to assume that information is correct.
>>
>> A Tesla coil also appear in an episode of "I Am Weasel" but as this is a
>> cartoon, well....
>>
>> Any other films you can think of?
>>
>> All help is greatly appreciated. Please contact me off list as I think
>> this is on the fringe of
>> being a valid topic here.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> /Matt
>>
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