Filmed inside Cambridge University's anechoic chamber (designed to create total silence) and featuring former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Ruhal Ahmed, this short by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin is a reflection on Ahmed's experiences whilst in detention (particularly how he was interrogated using high-volume music) and about the use of human sound on the body.

Mainframe was asked to help out on about 7 shots on this pop promo for The Courteeners. Basic concept was to explode a porcelain woman in slow motion. I went to the shoot in Essex on the last working day of 2009. (I was actually supposed to be on holiday already but that's how it goes sometimes..) It's a good song but all I can hear in the chorus is "You old potato"....
Cracks comped in Nuke. Explosion made in 3d max, rendered in Maya and comped in After Effects.
Oh yeah, we ended up working on 25 shots...

This was a litteral translation to the brief "Ex-celebertise rebuilding their life". We shattered four different people in 21 days straight in these 30 second promos for Virgin One.

All the shattering done in max with RayFire and rendered in vray for maya. Additional particle systems where setup in max to make it even nicer.
Quite a lot done for being 3 people over 3d weeks.

If you were a director, would you rather set up 10 000 dominoes by hand or would you rather say "Let's just do it in post"? I would set it up in real life but we had neither time or money to do that so we had to do them in 3D. It was so much fun setting up these bad boys in 3d and see them fall over!