10 CGI Moments In Recent Movies You DEFINITELY Missed

Jordan Peele's Nope is by far the filmmaker's most ambitious and expensive film to date, employing extensive VFX to bring its unconventional alien invasion narrative to life.

A major aspect of the story is that the alien, nicknamed Jean Jacket, uses the clouds to hide, and while you might therefore assume that Peele manipulated the clouds a little to meet his needs, you probably didn't expect the amazing full extent.

In a recent interview, the film's visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron revealed that all of the clouds and indeed the entire damn sky isn't real throughout the movie.

As a before-and-after comparison shows, the skies shot on location were relatively plain and un-cinematic - due to being filmed in the Californian summer - but the VFX team spent a year doing research and development to design a realistic cloud system that would also service Peele's sci-fi story.

In Rocheron's own words:

"We wanted those skies to be absolutely photo real in the sense that if the audience realises that we're fooling them by putting something fake in front of the audience, suddenly you lose all the impact and you lose all the mystery... Then they're just like, 'Oh, look a digital sky. Okay. Something's going to happen.'"