Civil War Lincoln Memorial Breakdown | Framestore

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While the Civil War VFX team sought to catch as much as possible in-camera, some shots just weren’t practical - like blowing up prominent American monuments.

The climactic scene involving the Lincoln Memorial was shot in an Atlanta backlot, and demanded both canny on-set wrangling and impeccable VFX artistry.

This shocking, explosive moment relied on brilliant environment, comp and FX work, but also an encyclopaedic knowledge of how weapons ‘work’ and their devastating real-world impact.

The team wanted to avoid the language of action cinema in order to deliver Alex Garland’s documentary-style vision, which meant painstaking (and often harrowing) research into areas like muzzle flash, tracer fire, missile launches and explosions.

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