Entity FX Executes Visual Effects for Law Abiding Citizen

Santa Monica, California (October 15, 2009)

Leading visual effects company Entity FX announced today that it has completed visual effects for a number of key sequences in the new motion picture Law Abiding Citizen. Directed by F. Gary Gray and distributed domestically by Overture Films, Law Abiding Citizen tells the story of an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are ruthlessly murdered when robbers break into their home. Outraged at the release of one of the killers and the failure of the justice system, he orchestrates a string of spectacular assassinations to exact his revenge.

Although no actors were harmed in the making of this movie, Entity FX served up some gruesome demises for a variety of victims in the film.

One example is an execution sequence in which poison courses through a character's bulging veins as he dies in agony from a lethal injection gone awry. Entity FX digitally tracked 3D pulsing (and leaking) blood vessels to the actor's violent movements.

Entity FX additionally built and launched a missile that destroys an SUV with the help of an enhanced explosion. A lethal telephone call also benefited from Entity's digital mayhem. Further work by the company included invisible cosmetic and scenic enhancements to a number of scenes.

Entity FX's toolset on the project included Maya for 3D modeling and animation, boujou for tracking, and After Effects and Inferno for compositing and image effects. Entity FX credits include: Mat Beck, Senior VFX Supervisor; Brian Harding, VFX Supervisor; Daniel Rucinski, VFX Executive Producer; Ellyn Lewis, General Manager; Krista Maryanski, VFX Producer; Bob Hamel and Maggie Whittemore, VFX Coordinators; Eli Jarra, and Chris Stevens, Senior Compositors; Jeremy Renteria, Brian Petras, Compositors; Billy Robinson, Rotoscope Artist; Kaz Yoshida, David Alexander, Rik Panero, Dean Deakyne, Yuko Uda, 3D Artists; Viet Nguyen, Systems Engineering; and Nate Smalley and Aaron Leichter, Data I/O.