Belgravia VFX Breakdown by BlueBolt

Belgravia VFX Breakdown by BlueBolt

BlueBolt, Belgravia is the story of secrets and dishonour amongst the upper echelon of London society and begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Written by Julian Fellows the series stars Tamsin Greig and Harriet Walter as two mothers haunted by the secrets of their long-dead children.

As the main VFX vendor on this project, we were tasked with replicating Belgravia of the 1800s. The location for the Belgravia shots was the beautifully preserved Moray Place in Edinburgh, featuring the classic dark stone buildings.

To ensure accuracy and sympathy to the Belgravia of the time, we referenced the works of master builder Thomas Cubitt, plus shot reference photography of contemporary Belgravia in London. The VFX transformation from dark Edinburgh stone to white Belgravia stucco, started with a lidar scan to create a Moray Place model to allow us to remodel and replace the stone work with Belgravia CG buildings.

We wanted to retain as much as possible from the Edinburgh location – trees, pavements, window reflections, doors and railings – so we decided not to use greenscreen and instead use a lot of rotoscoping and compositing tricks to combine this with our CG Belgravia.

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