{"id":14154,"date":"2012-01-27T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2012-01-27T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:39:50","slug":"tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-visual-effects-chimney-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/27\/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-visual-effects-chimney-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy VFX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Spy-VFX-Breakdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14155\" title=\"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy VFX Breakdown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Spy-VFX-Breakdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A video showing how visual effects were used to create the period world of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/09\/14\/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-review\/\">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<\/a><\/strong> begs the question as to why wasn&#8217;t nominated for a BAFTA or Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Mention the phrase &#8216;visual effects&#8217; and I suspect images of science fiction or fantasy movies leap to mind.<\/p>\n<p>After all, films like Star Wars (1977) and Avatar (2009) are most associated with the field.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Alfredson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/09\/14\/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-review\/\">masterful John Le Carre adaptation<\/a> is not the kind of film you would associate with modern visual effects, as it is a realistic tale of corruption and intrigue in MI6 during the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>But this video shows how modern technology was used to skilfully augment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOSwLGhmTNY\">Maria Djurkovic<\/a>&#8216;s amazing production design:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVXClzrb1es\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They were done by Swedish company <a href=\"http:\/\/thechimneypot.com\/stockholm\">The Chimney Pot<\/a> they highlight just how sophisticated the digital augmentation of photographic reality has become.<\/p>\n<p>So sophisticated in fact that it may have worked against them in the awards season as the film has missed out on both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/17\/bafta-nominations-2011-the-artist\/\">BAFTA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/24\/84th-academy-awards-nominations-in-full\/\">Academy nominations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t easy to blend old school techniques with cutting edge digital tools, but when they are combined successfully the results can be magical.<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062622\/trivia?tab=tr&#038;item=tr0748465\">the (possibly apocryphal) story<\/a> that 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) lost the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Makeup\">Best Makeup Academy Award<\/a> to John Chambers for Planet of the Apes (1968) because the judges didn&#8217;t realize Kubrick&#8217;s apes were really people (perhaps that was actually a greater compliment than the Oscar).<\/p>\n<p>It was a strong field this year but it begs the question, did The Chimney Pot lose out on visual effects recognition because they were <em>too<\/em> good?<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/thechimneypot.com\/stockholm\">The Chimney Pot<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects\">More on the history of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video showing how visual effects were used to create the period world of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy begs the question as to why wasn&#8217;t nominated for a BAFTA or Oscar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2415],"tags":[2226,1268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}