not all effects in movies are done the way you think they are
for example i thought they did this shot like this but it turns out it's not true
so let's see what really went on behind the vfx of fast and furious six
this initial heist scene in moscow was actually shot in london
the car interior shots were actually shot in front of green screens that one is pretty obvious
cg cars were added to drone aerial footage
wembley stadium and the london street race scene fooled us all into thinking that it was all
shot in london when it was actually shot in six different locations across three different cities
london is a busy city and there are only a few certain streets that can be shut down
without forcing the whole city to grind to a halt this meant that the filmmakers had
to film different parts of the race sequence on the exact same stretch
of road vfx artists then had to replace different sections of the streets digitally
so that we wouldn't notice that it was actually all the same road over and over again
in order to achieve this illusion the
backgrounds used for the interior car window shots had to be altered
some cars had to be repositioned
pedestrians vehicles and lights were added or removed
and the ends of streets side streets and skylines were digitally extended with
london location photography to make the roads appear longer
but they didn't just fool us with london streets that weren't really there
or sergeant digidevil here
they also used cg cars like those in this drone footage
and cg cars like the ones used in this crash sequence in fact every single car
used in production was lidar scanned and photographed and different digital versions
were made with the progressive amount of damage they underwent throughout the movie's timeline
the entire movie is full of subtle vfx we didn't notice or question
obviously dwayne the rock johnson isn't going to really jump out of an armored truck
onto the flip car so we automatically know this has to be a visual effect
but the variety of backgrounds racing past car windows go completely unnoticed
did you notice this window with cg smashed glass
before that this tablet screen was just a green image with touch points marked on it
all that this bmw the background
the lights reflecting on the windscreen and its opacity were all digital effects
the effects throughout the movie were so extensive that almost every shot had some sort of addition
augmentation
or adjustment
a total of over 1 800 visual effects shots from 12 different vfx vendors and over 1 000 vfx
artists from six different countries not only kept us feeling that the impossible
stunts we were seeing were actually real but also kept us believing that the extremely
unrealistic storylines of the fast and furious franchise were actually possible