A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

Post Magazine Interview with Director James Mangold on A Complete Unknown

Extract from the article:

What were the visual effects needs for this film and who handled the work?

“The guys in Australia - Rising Sun Pictures - did nearly everything, and they did a great job. Rising Sun also worked on Indy with me, and they did a lot of the street extensions and crowd replacement in the New York sequences in that movie. They were really aggressive and helpful and creative about this movie, which was obviously a much lower budget…We obviously couldn't afford to have more than 150 to 200 extras on-set any given day, so the crowd extensions - the sense that Newport or Carnegie Hall or wherever where you feel the crowd in the balcony, and as far as the eye can see - that was the very hard-to-spot but beautifully-done work of our visual effects artists.

“Duplicating the key. You just have to fill the first six or seven rows, where you're really going to see the detail of the of the people's faces. But it's not so simple. I mean, when they're cheering and booing and throwing things, and all those people all the way out to the 85th row have to be animated and dressed, so it's a huge effects undertaking, although obviously not an effects picture per se.”

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RSP's team was led by VFX Supervisor Julian Hutchens and VFX Producer Jayne Herrmann