Travel Changed Me
SuperBlimp supplied the visual effects for Travel Changed Me, a film for travel brand Away directed by Jordan Hemingway and FKA twigs, produced by American Haiku. The film follows a Muay Thai fight in Bangkok, framed as a sensory experience rather than a sport: something you see, hear, smell, and feel, the kind of moment that travel can change a person around.SuperBlimp's role was the invisible beauty work and VFX integration that lets the film's heightened reality hold together as a single continuous piece.
The work
Jordan Hemingway and FKA twigs co-directed the film with Lukasz Zal as DOP, building the piece around the textures and atmosphere of Bangkok at night. The Muay Thai sequence at the heart of the film needed to feel real and almost documentary, but also heightened: the kind of cinematic reality where every drop of sweat, every flicker of light, every moment of contact lands harder than it would on a phone-shot record of the same event. Our role was the beauty work and VFX finish that takes a tightly-shot practical sequence and lets it breathe at the level the directors were reaching for. Skin work, environment integration, atmospheric pass, and the kind of careful invisible craft that elevates a scene without ever signposting itself.
Shot Breakdowns
Credits
Client: Away
SuperBlimp’s role: Visual effects. Invisible beauty work, VFX integration, and finish.
Direction Directors: Jordan Hemingway, FKA twigs · Director of Photography: Lukasz Zal
Production Production Companies: Object & Animal, Dutty Pictures, TaProdGroup · Executive Producer: Joseph Radonich · Production Manager: Conor Joyce · Producer: Ollie Barron
Post Production Post Production: Purple Martin Studio · VFX: SuperBlimp · Colour: Electric Theatre Collective · Colourist: CJ Coolboar
Music and Sound Music: “Mae Kha Som Tam” remixed by VOWWS · Score Design: Bardo
