No special effects in ‘Oppenheimer’ is “clearly not true”, says VFX supervisor
nme.comOppenheimer‘s VXF supervisor Andrew Jackson has denied claims that there are no special effects in Christopher Nolan‘s latest film.In the lead up to the movie’s release, headlines spread after Nolan stated there were no computer-generated images in Oppenheimer, which lead some people to believe that the film didn’t feature any visual effects at all.“Some people have picked that up and taken it to mean that there are no visual effects, which is clearly not true,” Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Visual effects can encompass a whole lot of things.” That includes computer-generated imagery and “in-camera” special effects created on set.One VFX moment is the scene re-creating the Trinity Test, in which J.
Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and his team of scientists detonated the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.According to Jackson, who won an Oscar for Nolan’s Tenet, the explosion was achieved by shooting real explosions and smoke, and then layering the filmed elements through digital compositing.“[Nolan] didn’t want use any CG simulations of a nuclear explosion.
He wanted to be in that sort of language of the era of the film… using practical filmed elements to tell that story.”Jackson explained that they didn’t attempt to make an exact copy of what the explosion would have looked like.
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