Wolf Hall

Post Lip Sync

Clients Company Pictures; Playground Entertainment

Brief Provide picture and audio post and titles for the 6 x 60-minute adaptation of Hilary Mantel novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies.

How it was done Re-recording mixer Rob Hughes’ aim was to create a detailed and involving environment that supports and reflects the subtleties of the performances. Hughes said the need for authenticity was paramount in order to envelope the viewer in the historical period. Key sequences realised by Lip Sync’s VFX team, led by VFX supervisor George Zwier, included the world of Tudor London around Cromwell’s home, Austin Friars, and the Thames around London Bridge. Lip Sync also created the title sequence, which has been used as the basis for cover artwork on the new editions of the books to accompany the series.

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The audio kit included the use of a 32 fader AMS Neve DFC console, using three Pro Tools HD machines.

Software tools included iZotope RX4 Advanced, Waves, DMG’s Equality, Fab Filter’s Pro Q and Altiverb as well as TC 6000 hardware reverbs.

For the VFX, Maya was used for modelling and lighting while Arnold was used for rendering.

2D and 3D compositing was completed in Nuke.