The Compositor Jason Greenblum and Effects Animator Bjorn Zipperich, working with CG Supervisor John Monos, added color lighting compositing effects comprised of smoke, debris, shattered glass, and distortion effects from the shock waves.ĭirector Scott wanted to have the big-impact moment personalized by, including a Japanese tourist couple to absorb the shock of the explosion. The simulation was then rendered on an in-house renderer called Svea. Patrick Witting, an expert in fire and smoke simulations. The blast for the film was a digital explosion. "We captured these incredible shock waves on film, and Ridley really liked this effect and wanted to incorporate it." "We filmed some TNT blowing up in Morocco," she says. For starters, footage was shot of an actual explosion. It features pulsing shock waves that have an almost physical impact for the viewer. The Amsterdam market explosion and destruction, set off by a bomb inside a car, is one of the film's highlights. The rest of the shots which involved monitor burn-ins and graphics, and some of the 2D matte paintings, were done at Invisible Effects. Imageworks post took a brief seven weeks and the complex 2D and 3D shots were done primarily at Sony Pictures Imageworks. "We were trying to be cognizant of the vfx budget, and then figure out what was most effective for Imageworks to do in post." "When we were on set we knew that some of these visual effects were going to be more complicated than others," she adds. The simulations were then rendered in Svea.ĭuggal was in Morocco where most of the film was shot, as well as in Washington, D.C., which substituted for Amsterdam for the flower market explosion. Houdini was used to run the volumetric simulations (describes the forces of the explosion). "I don't think there's a shot in the film that we worked on that doesn't have lots of vfx animation stacked in there elements like smoke and dust layers."Īs for software, Flame and Shake were used for compositing, and Maya for 3D animation. "One of the things I realized from the bidding stage - I've worked with Ridley before on Matchstick Men so I had a sense of how he works - I knew that atmospheric effects was going to be a really important part of this project for us," says Duggal. Invisible Effects (supervised by Dick Edwards) accounted for another 150, and Imageworks India also was involved. Sony Imageworks worked on about 50 effects shots.
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"We wanted to be smart about how we approached the visual effects in the film, because it's not a visual effects driven movie - the visual effects are really just there to help the story," notes Duggal. Duggal recently talked to VFXWorld about the challenges of the job.
VFX Supervisor Sheena Duggal and her team at Sony Pictures Imageworks get props for seamlessly integrating the CG scenes with the shot footage. In addition, a scene that takes place at what's supposed to be the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey was created digitally. They include a flower market explosion set in Amsterdam and a complex desert chase involving cars and helicopters. Though limited, vfx does play an important role in several key sequences.
Upon viewing, there seem to be few CG visual effects employed in Lies, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the undercover agent and Russell Crowe as his crassly obsessive CIA handler. In Body of Lies, the just-released film from veteran director Ridley Scott, the visual look throughout is a gritty verisimilitude to add authenticity to the movie's plot about the deceptive and deadly cat-and-mouse games played by a CIA operative in pursuit of terrorists in Iraq and Jordan.
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