The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power is a 2015 direct-to-video fantasy action adventure directed by Mike Elliott. It stars Victor Webster as Mathayus, with Ellen Hollman, Lou Ferrigno, Rutger Hauer and Barry Bostwick, and was released by Universal as the fourth Scorpion King film.

Sword-and-sorcery is among the most effects-hungry genres a mid-budget production can take on. Ancient cities and palaces exist mainly as CG environments and matte paintings standing behind a handful of practical set pieces; battles need crowd multiplication, weapon impacts and dust; sorcery is written in fluid, fire and particle simulation; and any beast in the story arrives through modelling, rigging and character animation. Stage photography against blue screen then demands heavy rotoscoping before any of it can sit convincingly in frame. Terminal FX’s disciplines line up closely with that list, and the studio contributed visual effects and animation to The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power, which joins its film, television and commercial credits.