Valkyrie director Bryan Singer had an onerous task. He needed to make a Nazi soldier, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), and other German army officers sympathetic enough to hold an audience that already knows the ending to the story — a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Imageworks’ Richard Hoover, twice nominated for a visual effects Oscar (Superman Returns and Armageddon), had a less obvious challenge: lockstep the studio’s photorealistic visual effects into historical accuracy. In doing so, the Imageworks crew soldiered through around 600 shots that incorporated digital makeup and environmental effects. The film, widely praised for its meticulousness, received mixed reviews from critics who picked apart Cruise’s performance as Stauffenberg. But absent from those reviews is any mention of the effects.
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Comments (2) for "Subtle FX for Valkyrie's Secret Plot"
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Good I like it
Posted by Rupak on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 @ 12:46 PM
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GeoSurvey, the local Trimble distributor from Berlin, gladly supported the VFX-Crew whilst providing the Trimble Scanner. Thanks to Richard Hoover and his team for their decission to use our system. It was exciting for us to see the use of this powerfull HighTech instrument, usually used for surveying applications in the engineering and construction businesses in a completly different environment. The support of this project and especially the support at the set was an exciting moment in our daily business.
We are looking forward for the next project to come.
Posted by GeoSurvey, Jürgen A on Friday, January 16, 2009 @ 09:28 AM
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