S01 Mpc | Robin Hood

They understood the assignment: Don't be realistic. Be legendary.

We weren’t in Ivanhoe anymore. We were in the era of 300 and Gladiator , and the BBC wanted a piece of that stylized action. robin hood s01 mpc

Before they were rendering photorealistic lions for The Lion King (2019) or crafting the quantum realm for Ant-Man , MPC was the VFX house tasked with making Sherwood Forest look dangerous, expansive, and just a little bit magical on a television schedule. They understood the assignment: Don't be realistic

The exterior shots of the castle—the sweeping drone-like pans over the battlements, the view of the sheer cliff drop, the massive inner courtyard—are almost entirely by MPC. We were in the era of 300 and

Here is the forensic breakdown of Robin Hood Season 1, through the lens of MPC’s visual effects. Season 1 was famously shot in Hungary (specifically at Etyek Studios and the Fót forest), not England. MPC’s first job? Lies.

MPC had to animate the arrows hitting targets. In reality, an arrow flies in a parabolic arc. In Robin Hood Season 1, arrows fly like lasers. They go perfectly straight, horizontally, for hundreds of meters.