“They shot this on a bluescreen stage with what we called the rotisserie, which was basically a skeleton of a Dodge Charger mounted onto an absolute beast of a steel metal frame, which weighed a ton." - @wetafxofficial.bsky.social vfx supe Sheldon Stopsack
"Takeover points was a big one to consider. We also started to figure out how to orchestrate the beats that then affect the world around them. There’s the inside world and the outside world, and for this we had an approach called a local space workflow." - Stopsack
Once everything had been stitched and blended together, artists lined up the ‘local space’ to what was needed for the highway. “This is where our animation team kicked in who did a lot of the orchestration of the traffic outside," says Stopsack
With the camera moving around a great deal, and with the car buck only being a portion of the vehicle, @wetafxofficial.bsky.social would ultimately replace much of the car interior with a digital version.
For the roll-over crash moment, not only was the car interior digital, so too were the characters inside the car. “That helped us transition from the first part of the crash to go into an all-digital portion with all-digital characters,” describes Stopsack.
At one point, a truck flips in front of the now out-of-control car. Eagle-eyed viewers may have caught that the moment the truck begins edging sideways matches up to a gunshot coming from inside the car.
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