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i th a little
over 1,200
visual ef-
fects shots
in a movie, you might expect
a good portion to be all-digital
shots. Not so in
Director Christopher McQuarrie's
Mission: Impossible – Rogue
Nation. Actor Tom Cruise
reprises his role as Ethan Hunt
in the Paramount Pictures
release. To help make Hunt's
mission possible, approximately
600 artists at Double Negative
(DNeg) in London, Singapore,
and Mumbai, India, worked
on 1,000 of the 1,200 visual
effects shots. An in-house team
composited approximately 200
shots, One of Us contributed
a small number of shots, and
SPOV provided graphic content
for computer monitors. The
Third Floor did previs.
"The brief for this film, and I
suppose for all the films in the
Mission: Impossible franchise,
BY BARBARA ROBERTSON
©2015
Paramount
Pictures
