Fallout!

Most of us have played an episode or two of Fallout – and were cautiously pleased when Amazon Prime announced a film adaptation. Turns out the first season was a lot of fun – and had some great shots. Some of the best came from Rise FX – so we connected our Pip-Boy to the bunker in Berlin and asked the artists!

We spoke to Andreas Giesen (andreas-giesen.com), who has been with RiseFX (www.risefx.com) since 2011 and has worked on X-Men, The Matrix, The Last of Us and the various entries in the Marvel universe, among others. He was involved in Fallout as VFX supervisor - and we asked him again after his talk at FMX.

DP: What shots did you get? And how did you get involved with Fallout in the first place?Andreas Giesen: We worked on just under 400 shots in total and were lucky that they were also very varied. Classic set extensions for the destroyed cities and the Wasteland, the iconic Vertbirds and Powerarmors, right through to the effects-intensive sequences at the beginning and end of the show.We had already worked with Lisa Joy on the film Reminiscence and for Jonathan Nolan and Jay Worth on Westworld, where there were also gigantic set extensions. Of course, it was a great honour for us to be on board Fallout from the very beginning.

DP: I assume you playe...


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