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Brilliant!
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Hey Aaron i took this shot of Adam lining up the Bolt arm where the camera does a 780 around him near the end of the shot. It’s a motion control arm that can repeat moves.
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Read more in the @beforesmag.bsky.social story:
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"Then we found the most amazing amount of reference on YouTube for exploding tires, and airbags—all sorts of crazy crashes,” says Warner. “We just made it bigger and bigger until everything basically explodes.”
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“If you look for it,” says Weta FX vfx sequence supe Ben Warner, “you’ll see the tire really goes pop, and that it goes pop maybe two or three frames after the muzzle flash goes off."
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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"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
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“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
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Principal photography of the actors on bluescreen made use of a specially-designed car rig, and a Technocrane for shooting.
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When the array footage was being captured, a front-mounted GPS was also installed, meaning you could see what they were seeing at the front of the car. @wetafxofficial.bsky.social could then match it up with the array but also match up the GPS locations.