digital shell castings ballroom fighting computer generated high heels cg gliders digital bombs
grass a hidden spoiler and bits of an island made out of cg i
these are just some of the vfx that went into no time to die
no time to die had plenty of time for practical effects and stunts as the director was adamant
to keep as much of the original plate as possible however that doesn't mean that the movie didn't
need the effects on the contrary there were some very necessary uses of vfx for example number
one to adjust the lighting an example of this is the norway sequence where they found that as they
shot principal photography throughout the day the light would change drastically in order to have
consistent lighting throughout the sequence they recreated the entire norway environment digitally
then they lit it the exact way the director wanted then used this lighting information
to re-light the plate photography to look the same two to augment the shot
they did this for the trees in norway that didn't have snow on them so the vfx team replicated the
trees with cgi and put digital snow on them they then lifted that digital snow off the cg
trees and put it onto the trees in the original plates this may seem like a lot of work for a
little bit of snow that no one's going to really care about anyway but it's the subtle details
like this that really immerse the audience into the scene making the story even more believable
another subtle way to improve the storytelling is by hiding spoilers that foreshadow future events
and in case you missed it this actually happened at the very beginning of the movie with the
iconic bond barrel sequence although it has remained pretty unchanged throughout the years
this time in no time to die they decided to do it a little differently
not quite you see for those of you who weren't paying attention there was actually a spoiler
hidden right within this very sequence as this time bond doesn't fire his gun and the baddie guy
shoots first also there's no blood or wobbliness from the shooter man unlike in all the other ones
thus foreshadowing as we see in the grand finale the end of a double o daniel craig
but that wasn't the only thing that had been subtly hidden as along with all the incredible
practical effects stunt bikes jumping over walls and donuts in cars vfx were very much needed
for hiding many elements within all the practical effects so as not to spoil the story which brings
us to our third necessary use of the effects to add or remove something from the shot an example
of this is in the db5 sequence in matera italy where in the donut square scene they added cg
dust smoke and debris as well as digital shell castings muzzle flashes and the digital removal of
this it's an ingenious rig that was clamped on the db5's front left tyre enabling the car to rotate
around it whilst remaining in the same place and simultaneously trigger switches that detonated
squibs positioned all over the set at the exact moment the car turned to face them and finally
number four vfx were used to solve problems this happened in the land rover chase sequence that was
set in norway but filmed in scotland after various takes of land rovers skidding around churning up
all the grass it naturally turned to mud and so it had to be replaced with digital grass scotland
then got too rainy and wet so they had to look for a similar looking hill to finish the sequence
and they found one in salisbury but unfortunately salisbury's grass doesn't look like scottish grass
and so this had to be cg2 in addition to all of this later on in the editing process they saw it
necessary to cut out the motorbike stunt section of the sequence this meant that the vfx team had
to digitally remove motorbikes and ramps from the first part of the land rover chase sequence and
substitute the last motorbike in the sequence for a cg land rover in order to stitch the two parts
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