![]() ![]() ![]() J’burg would form the basis of Mega-City One, a futuristic metropolis inhabited by 800 million residents and featuring enormous tower blocks stretching up to a kilometer high or 200 stories. ![]() Needing a suitable location in which to shoot a gritty cityscape for the film’s setting – in which law enforcers like Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) have the power of judge, jury and executioner – the production chose Johannesburg and Cape Town. Courtesy of our media partners The Daily. – Above: Jon Thum, VFX Supervisor of Dredd 3D and Prime Focus World, explains the work behind Dredd’s futuristic landscapes. We talked a lot about filling the scene with objects and production design took that on board, so you’ll see all the sets have mid-ground things jutting out and hanging from the ceiling.” “He would experiment with things out of focus which is usually a big no-no, but we really set out to break the rules, or see how we could break the rules. “Our DOP Anthony Dod Mantle was really excited about shooting in stereo and that was one of the big things that brought everyone together,” says Thum. The majority of principal photography – around 95% – was filmed in stereo, although helicopter plates and some other scenes were post-converted by Prime Focus, and some native stereo was also ‘exaggerated’ in post. “There was a lot of violence in the script and he wanted that to come through, except for the drug moments when it needed to appear hyper-real and somewhat beautiful.”Īdding to the impact was the fact that Dredd was a stereo show, filmed natively on RED One’s and SI-2Ks, and high speed photography shot on Phantom Flex’s. “Alex wanted Dredd to be gritty and real and visceral,” says Thum. ![]() Thum, VFX Supervisor of Dredd 3D and Prime Focus World, was on-board early in the concept stage working with writer and producer Alex Garland. Slow motion effects formed some of the film’s key sequences. We go behind the scenes of the stereo effects work in the film with overall visual effects supervisor Jon Thum, Prime Focus World, Baseblack and The Mill. A future metropolis, slow motion gun battles and some literally head-exploding scenes – these are just some of the visual effects in Pete Travis’ Dredd 3D, a new take on the 2000 AD Judge Dredd comic character. ![]()
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