A combination of fun greenscreen stunt work, and digital VFX from Ingenuity Studios, was used.
One of the most talked about scenes from Zach Cregger’s Weapons sees a group of bewitched children emerge crazily from a house, including breaking through glass windows.
To create that scene, the production utilized a combination of stunt work, and digital visual effects from Ingenuity Studios (VFX supervisor Gabriel Regentin).
Actor Devyn Dalton posted on her Instagram page a behind the scenes of the greenscreen stunt shoot, which shows her breaking through a window mock-up.
Then, from an Ingenuity press release, here’s some notes about their digital visual effects work:
- Ingenuity Studios did previs for the scene, and firstly considered going fully digital for some of the kids.
- Instead, the team ended up creating safe conditions (stunt paths), and used stunt adult actors of shorter stature, and sent the kids to a “boot camp” to help them play as characters under a spell.
- The final shots were were a mix of kids and stunts, and Ingenuity carried out digital enhancements to some of the crazy things they were doing.
- There are three big shots of breaking through windows, as well as a shot of them bringing the gate down on a fence, which has 20 kids rushing through.
Here’s a still below showcasing Ingenuity’s work. I think it’s really fun to see this combination of practical and digital for a sequence like this.
