Terrible Dad

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Terrible Dad is a children’s adventure comedy film directed by Karen Oganesyan and Yuri Korobeinikov. The film stars Yevgeni Grishkovetz as Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who travel to the past to fix a mistake and ends up in the present day.

Having quarreled with his son, Tsar Ivan the Terrible accidentally mortally wounds him —as depicted in the painting by Ilya Repin. To fix this, Ivan, with the help of a magical grimoire from his legendary library, decides to travel to the past a moment before the fatal blow. However, everything does not go according to plan, and the tsar finds himself in our time, where he meets the Osipov family.

Nikita Osipov is an unsuccessful archaeologist and an equally unsuccessful father and husband. Recently divorced, he has lost contact with his children — Romka and Polya. The Osipov family becomes embroiled in Ivan’s tale, as he tries to find the grimoire and save his son.

  • Client

    Film

  • Year

    2022

  • Artists

    Andrey Krasavin

    Ekaterina Akimova

Our main challenge was to create magic portla which drops Tsar to the future and then returns back to the past.

FX asset look development
magic portal FX
magic portal FX

There was also a sequence which required prop in the hands to be replaced with original old book.

book asset for replacement
book asset for replacement

There was also request for another magic power which can travel in space and work as  a portal in a bigger distances.

magic trail FX