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9. The VFX Were Completed By Five People From Their Bedrooms - Everything Everywhere All At Once
To look at Everything Everywhere All At Once, you'd never guess that it was made for just $25 million - the complexity of the visual effects, touting over 500 effects shots, can easily match the style and finesse of films produced with considerably larger budgets.
Yet 80% of the film's VFX were ultimately the collaborative effort of just five artists, led by Zak Stoltz - a friend of directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert who had never worked as an effects supervisor on a feature film before.
The five artists, all filmmakers themselves, used off-the-shelf software such as Adobe After Effects to create the film's kaleidoscopic, surreal effects, yet due to the sheer number of shots they needed to complete with so few people and so little money, it required a Herculean effort.
Post-production was further complicated by the pandemic, which required the artists to complete shots separately from their own homes. A file-sharing system was ultimately put in place which allowed one artist's work to update on each artist's home computer.
Additionally, the team had to deal with unexpectedly complex effects for a small team, such as removing Jamie Lee Curtis from one sequence frame-by-frame.
That the end result is such an astonishing achievement is all the more testament to their mind-boggling hard graft, which will hopefully be rewarded with a Best Visual Effects Oscar nomination next year.