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Exploding the myth surrounding ‘Oppenheimer”s VFX

Ahead of its cinema release, Christopher Nolan famously made a big thing of saying that Oppenheimer didn’t include any CGI. That’s not the same as saying the film doesn’t contain any VFX, and so the matter’s now being clarified. For the, as has been mentioned here before, pivotal Trinity Test sequence, for example, the VFX […]

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Recreating the Trinity test for ‘Oppenheimer’ without CGI

Recreating the ten-minute Trinity nuclear test sequence for Oppenheimer in-camera, to preserve the quality of the film stock, was a big challenge for special effects supervisor Scott Fisher and visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and involved a lot of experimentation. The sequence took several weeks to film and the process was quite fragmented. How it […]