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Dennis Berardi is the Creative Director and Senior VFX Supervisor at Herne Hill Media. Founder of Herne Hill Media, Dennis Berardi, is a creative visionary known for his unwavering dedication to the art of visual effects which is epitomized in the quality of his work.
The company was founded in the late 1970s by Dennis Berardi and Gary Kramer, a close friend and associate of Travis Bean, to manufacture aluminum-necked guitars. Gary Kramer, Dennis Berardi, Peter LaPlaca (a Vice President at Norlin, parent company of Gibson in 1974), and investor Henry Vaccaro joined forces to open a plant in Neptune, New Jersey.
- Choosing Their Beasts
- Creating The Beast
- Creating The Landscapes
Anderson: It was a three-pronged approach to choosing the monsters. Firstly, we went with fan favorites, and we worked closely with Capcom and the creators of the game to hone in on what the fans wanted to see. Rathalos was an easy pick because he was the poster boy of the video game, and you couldn’t make a “Monster Hunter” movie without him. I ch...
Berardi: The challenge was to make it feel immersive and cinematic. We decided early on that the creatures should be based in real world physics. We had the actors in real locations and landscapes. From my perspective, we just wanted to make sure that creatures felt cinematic. We wanted to level up the experience from the video game. This is a dire...
Berardi: We wanted to have a real texture and physical sense to it. Between Paul and Edward Thomas, the production designer, they built some great sets. We decided early on that we wanted to be able to replicate any landscape and replicate any location. We had a data surveying team. It was the largest data surveying team I’ve ever had on a movie. W...
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Dennis Berardi is known for The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021) and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012).
- Visual Effects, Producer, Executive
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Dec 20, 2021 · Dennis Berardi. Delivering Digital Snow (and Chickens) Berardi says they rendered 15,000 versions internally of shots (del Toro didn’t see all of those), used a total of 450 terabytes of data...
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Dec 21, 2020 · “We look to animals and nature, everything from elephants to anatomical studies on dinosaurs because that's the scale of these things,” said producer and Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis...
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Jun 15, 2023 · From worm-headed demons to giant rat monsters, zombies, and an alien slug thing, Dennis Berardi had a hand in bringing some of the coolest and scariest TV creatures to life on “Guillermo del...
