Hot Fuzz

'Hot Fuzz' tells the story of supercop Nick Angel, a London policeman who is so good at his job he makes the rest of the force look incompetent; to save embarrassment his bosses decide to relocate him to a sleepy country village. The overachiever has trouble reconciling himself to his new surroundings, but is soon investigating a string of gruesome deaths.

When DNEG was asked to contribute the visual effects for this action comedy, we jumped at the chance. Having worked with Edgar on the smash-hit, Shaun of the Dead, we knew that it would be the experience of a lifetime.

Visual Effects Supervisor, Richard Briscoe and Visual Effects Producer, Steve Garrad led DNEG’s team on the project. The work itself was an eclectic mixture of VFX shots, from explosions with CG elements, matte paintings, and compositing, to lots of blood and gore enhancement. Indeed, blood and gore added a lot to the shot count, which was in keeping with director Edgar Wright’s mantra – “There’s no such thing in my vocabulary as over the top!”

In total DNEG worked on 180+ shots for the movie.