“It’s an incredible challenge with the whole aesthetic of the show. The more we dug into what their ambitions were, the more it became clear this was not your typical visual effects world-building exercise.” - Simon Hughes, VFX Supervisor on #PoorThings 🍎 For Hughes and his @unionvfx team, Yorgos Langthimos’ dark comedy, a stunningly designed visual maelstrom officially on this year’s Oscar Shortlist, required something completely different from a typical VFX project, including odd, surgically created hybrid animals using as much actual footage as possible, integration of plates shot with 3 different film stocks, 11 enormous wrap-around LED screens, 50s style painted backdrops, and some really crazy colored skies. Read AWN’s Trevor Hogg’s full interview with the Sup: bit.ly/471o0s9 #poorthingsfilm #poorthingsmovie #poorthingsvfx #vfx #visualeffects #visualeffectssociety #awn #animationworldnetwork