10 CGI Moments In Recent Movies NOBODY Noticed
3. Piccadilly Circus - Last Night In Soho
Edgar Wright is an extremely shrewd filmmaker where VFX are concerned, yet when it came to recreating 1960s London for his most recent film Last Night in Soho, it was reasonable to assume that he would simply alter shots of modern day London to resemble their past.
While that's largely true during the scenes set in Soho itself, the sequence where Jack (Matt Smith) drives Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy) around Piccadilly Circus is actually a feat of low-key VFX genius.
Though you probably assumed Edgar Wright simply shot the scene in Piccadilly Circus for real and then had the shot edited to resemble its '60s self, the car ride was actually shot at another location altogether.
From the VFX breakdown, it's clear that the car was filmed riding along a closed street/track and then cleverly composited into a 100% CGI recreation of '60s Piccadilly Circus.
Because the lighting between the raw footage of the car and the VFX shot match up pretty much perfectly, it looks supremely photorealistic.