Officer K, a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former blade runner who’s been missing for 30 years.
Blade Runner 2049
An Oscar® winning visual feast
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Credits
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Producers
Ridley Scott, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Cynthia Sikes, Bud Yorkin
Production Companies
Alcon Entertainment, Sony, 16:14 Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Thunderbird Entertainment, Torridon Films
Studios
Warner Bros. , Sony Pictures Releasing
Dneg VFX Supervisor
Paul Lambert
Dneg VFX Producer
Michelle Eisenreich
Release Date
6th October 2017
With this visually staggering film, director Denis Villeneuve brings us to a kind of Ozymandias moment. It just has to be experienced on the biggest screen possible.THE GUARDIAN
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Blade Runner 2049 Awards
DNEG VFX Supervisor Paul Lambert, along with Overall VFX Supervisor John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer and Richard R. Hoover, were honoured with both an Academy Award® and a BAFTA for the visual effects of Blade Runner 2049.
DNEG was the lead VFX house on Blade Runner 2049 and our Vancouver team also picked up the Visual Effects Society award for ‘Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature’. Chris McLaughlin (CG Supervisor), Rhys Salcombe (Build Supervisor), Francesco Dell’Anna (Lead Compositor) and Seungjin Woo (Concept Artist) picked up the honour for their environment work in creating the future Los Angeles of 2049.
Online press
Art of VFX: Blade Runner 2049: Paul Lambert – VFX Supervisor – DNEG
FX Guide: The techniques used in the Blade Runner 2049 Hologram Sex scene
Video Salon (Japanese): Concept Art – Blade Runner 2049 – Kouji Tajima, Concept Artist DNEG
VFX Science: The Joi of Blade Runner 2049
IndieWire: ‘Blade Runner 2049’: Inside Denis Villeneuve’s Holographic Joi of Sex
Daily Hive: Blade Runner 2049: The beautiful visual effects behind that virtual threesome
VFX Blog: Blade Runner 2049: going deep with DNEG
WIRED UK: How Blade Runner 2049’s VFX team made K’s hologram girlfriend
BBC Click (Paul Lambert’s interview starts at 18 mins): Gareth Mitchell talks to Paul Lambert, VFX supervisor, about his work on Blade Runner 2049
IGN: Blade Runner 2049: How Denis Villeneuve created the most complicated sex scene of all times
Independent: Blade Runner 2049 contains months of VFX work you can’t even see with the naked eye
Broadcast: Framestore and Double Negative win VFX BAFTA
Animation World Network: DNEG Delivers the Joi of ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Plugin (French): Blade Runner 2049: Nos Questions à l’Oscarisé Paul Lambert, Superviseur Des Effets Spéciaux