No greenscreens were relied upon during this shoot so roto became a huge component. How they did itĪs for the C-130 attack, the White House set required numerous digital extensions, CG buildings and trees, explosions, RPGs and crowd work. wp-content/uploads/2013/03/OlympusHasFallen_WWFX.mp4Watch WWFX’s breakdown of their Washington and White House shots.
The AC-130 crash segues into a ground assault on the White House by the terrorists, who enter via a destroyed gate thanks to a car bomb. Sequence #3: White House lawn attack What happens The C-130 and fighter jets, and the environments they fly in were digital, while the crumbling Washington Monument and the crashing C-130 made use of rigid-body sims and fluid effects for fire and smoke.Ī final shot from the sequence.
Cockpit motion bases were filmed on the greenscreen stage.Ī significant area of Washington, D.C was re-created for the sequence – shared amongst Worldwide FX’s offices in Sofia, Bulgaria and Shreveport, and Base FX in China. “There were almost no trees either, which are there at the real White House, nor were there any buildings which surround it, so these also had to be added.” Since aerial plates were difficult or impossible to obtain, only reference stills and panoramas could be captured around Washington. “To do the White House material, we built a big flat front face of the north side of the White House with the portico, stairs, driveway and the fountain and fence,” explains Jacobs. Production filmed White House material in Shreveport with only a partial build of areas. The plane deflects several F-22s before itself crashing into the Washington Monument and the south lawn of the White House. It is now 18 months later and Banning, no longer in the Secret Service, witnesses a terrorist attack on the White House by assailants in a C-130. Sequence #2: C-130 attacks the White House What happens The studio also extended the bridge, the trees, and created the river below. For where the actors are standing we built a 20×80 foot set bridge with a greenscreen around it, and a teeter tog rig with the car.” Ghost VFX in Denmark handled effects for the sequence, including backgrounds, snow and the digital cars.
“We did some tests with real cars skidding on a wetted-down pavement, but it just didn’t look right. “The skidding was happening because of black ice,” notes overall visual effects supervisor Evan Jacobs. Car interiors were shot as greenscreen plates.
How they did itįilming took place in Shreveport, Louisiana in mid-Summer, which meant the majority of snowy backgrounds had to be completed digitally. wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ohf_ghost_breakdowns_h264.mp4Watch a breakdown of Ghost’s visual effects for the motorcade accident.
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