As with most science fiction films, "Oblivion" also required a lot of VFX work. Pixomondo and Digital Domain were responsible for the film's digital eye candy. VFX supervisors Thilo Ewers from Pixomondo and Paul Lambert from Digital Domain explain how to create a huge ice canyon, 3D Tom Cruise models and a space station, among other things. The plot of the film, in which Tom Cruise plays the superhuman in a post-apocalyptic world, can - in keeping with the film's title - be forgotten. Visually, however, "Oblivion" is an extremely impressive film. Another positive aspect: the film has been released exclusively in 2D, which is unusual and courageous for an action blockbuster at the moment. The Blu-ray and DVD release is on 15 August - and you can win two BDs and two film posters in the reader survey in this issue of DP.
The VFX supervisors Eric Barba from Digital Domain and Bjørn Mayer from Pixomondo split the total of around 800 VFX shots between the two companies so that no scenes wer...
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