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What happens in Vegas
In the third act of Blade Runner 2049 we arrive at a stark orange-y Las Vegas, now a wasteland where the replicant and Blade Runner K (Ryan Gosling) has sought out the old-school Blade Runner Deckard (Harrison Ford). Much of the visual effects work in that sequence was handled by Framestore (overseen by visual effects…
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More Joi: how the giant ‘Blade Runner 2049’ hologram shot was pulled off
As a follow-up to my earlier coverage of Double Negative’s ménage à trois hologram work for Blade Runner 2049, overall visual effects supervisor now shares with vfxblog how Dneg also carried out the stunning giant hologram scene also featuring Joi. This time, actress Ana de Armas is playing Joi as a hologram advertisement as she…
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How ‘Blade Runner 2049’s’ virtual ménage à trois was made
The ménage à trois between K (Ryan Gosling), his companion hologram Joi (Ana de Armas) and Mariette (Mackenzie Davis) in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a stunningly realised sequence. It involves the real human Mariette interacting with K, while also ‘merging’ at times with Joi. The sequence involved significant visual effects planning and execution,…
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How ‘Blade Runner 2049’s’ virtual ménage à trois was made
The ménage à trois between K (Ryan Gosling), his companion hologram Joi (Ana de Armas) and Mariette (Mackenzie Davis) in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a stunningly realised sequence. It involves the real human Mariette interacting with K, while also ‘merging’ at times with Joi. The sequence involved significant visual effects planning and execution,…
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VIEW preview: ‘Guardians Vol. 2’ VFX supe Christopher Townsend talks shot iterations
It’s not very long until the VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, which kicks off 23 October. One of the amazing things about this event is the high calibre of speakers – we’re talking major visual effects supervisors, animation directors and leaders in VR and other creative content industries. Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend is…
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Beautybots and robot dogs: just another day in the life of Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks is behind a whole range of shots in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle, from robot dogs, to the beautybot (inspired by Claudia Schiffer), the surrounds of Poppy’s diner environment, a robotic arm, the destruction of the Kingsman mansion and that crazy one-shot fight scene at the end. Visual effects supervisor Mark Breakspear tells…
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Learn the (VFX) secrets of ‘mother!’ with visual effects supervisor Dan Schrecker
When I was interviewing visual effects supervisor Dan Schrecker about the VFX of Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, I was still getting my head around the movie. I knew I loved it, but I wasn’t clear on everything that had happened (I don’t think you’re meant to be, by the way). The result, though, from talking to…
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“That gives you goosebumps” – the VFX perspective on THU with Rise FX’s Florian Gellinger
It can be hard sometimes to nail down exactly what Trojan Horse was a Unicorn is. Of course, that’s its appeal – it’s an ‘experience,’ as co-founder André Lourenço describes it, for all kinds of creatives in digital illustration, design, concept art, 3D, CG, games, animation…and visual effects. To that end, visual effects supervisor and…
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Dan Curry on the practical and digital revolutions made in ‘Star Trek’ TV VFX
Visual effects producer and supervisor Dan Curry is synonymous with the Star Trek television series from the 1980s through the mid-2000s. It was a time in which VFX progressed from practical builds, miniatures and optical effects through to all things digital (although practical solutions certainly remained a key part of the way the show’s effects…
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I rarely post just a trailer on vfxblog, but this is just too good
It’s Isle of Dogs from Wes Anderson. Wow.
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