Visual effects house Bluebolt has revealed some of its work on Prime Video’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War starring John Krasinski.
The company was the lead VFX studio on the project, delivering 365 VFX, including urban environments spanning London, Dubai and New York, CG vehicles, aircraft and boats as well as the collapse of the entire glass floor of a skyscraper.
The glass floor sequence was filmed at a nightclub within Dubai’s One Za’abeel, which has a real glass-floored structure 20 storeys above ground.
Following principal photography in Dubai, Bluebolt’s Richard Frazer, who was overall production VFX supervisor on the project, helped plan an additional UK studio shoot involving stunt rigging and bluescreen work on large glass floor panels.
To realise the sequence, the team created a fully CG recreation of the set, including complex layers of reflections throughout the environment. Houdini was used to simulate the floor’s cracking and collapse, while the bluescreen photography and CG environment were integrated with footage captured at the practical location.
