Scanline VFX Reel Rebuilds Gotham City for Joker

Scanline’s Joker VFX reel breaks down the set extensions and digital environments used to create Gotham City.

Archive republication: This article was originally published on 21 August 2020. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.

Scanline VFX released a breakdown reel for Todd Phillips’s Joker, showing how visual effects and set extensions expanded practical locations into Gotham City.

The reel demonstrates environmental work designed to remain visually restrained within the film’s grounded cinematography, including city extensions and invisible compositing.