The high-speed stunner Speed Racer resets reality by creating a fantasyland out of nothing but computers and imagination
By Corey Binns
Posted 04.11.2020 at 1:44 pm
Go, Speed Racer: A fully composited single image from the Speed Racer movie. More than 500 effects artists worked on the film. Warner Bros.
Filming conventional high-speed action fare is hard enough, but to bring the classic cartoon
Speed Racer to life, the Wachowski brothers had to contend with 300mph racecars sporting fanciful features like robotic reconnaissance pigeons and wheels that can rotate 180 degrees. With 2,300 visual-effects (VFX) shots—twice as many as last year’s eye-popping 300—it heralds the future of summer-blockbuster fare: The entire movie, aside from the human actors, exists only in a computer.
“It’s a film about racing cars with no real cars and no real racetracks,” says Kim Libreri, the vice president of advanced strategy at Digital Domain, a visual-effects studio responsible for many of the race scenes. In our
photo gallery, we present a step-by-step guide to constructing an entire movie world from scratch.
Click here to launch the gallery.
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from Tualatin, OR
Fun... A movie about racing that doesn't have a single real car/track/etc. in it...
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