MPC Shares Halo Season 2 VFX Breakdown Reel, Concept Art [Video]

With stunning visual impact, the action-adventure sci-fi series Halo Season 2 launched on Paramount+ in February with a bit of help from the MPC VFX team. Working closely with production VFX supervisor Wojciech Zielinski and VFX producer Mike May, the MPC team provided a futuristic set extension, full CG city environments, hologram inserts, destruction FX simulations for battle scenes, vehicles, and crowds – all in within 97 shots delivered across the second season.

VFX supervisor Kedar Manapragada and VFX producer Nick Colangelo led MPC’s creative team along with DFX supervisor Artem Sukach, animation director Tom Nagy, CG supervisor James Reid, and production managers Paula Barragan Naranjo and Huong Vu.

In 2022, Zielinski enlisted MPC to guide the collection of motion capture data for the show’s fight sequences. In addition, Zielinski and May reached out to MPC’s LA-based Art Department to design new key characters for the second season, including Sangheili warriors, Arbiter Var ‘Gatanai, the Covenant priest Uto ‘Mdama, …