A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story.
Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it’s too late.
Crew Credits
- Bryan Grill VFX Supervisor
- Laurent Taillefer Associate VFX Supervisor
- Lisa K. Spence VFX Producer
- Syed Arafath Apsar Associate VFX Producer
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Nomination
Academy Awards 2021
Best Visual Effects
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Nomination
BAFTA Awards 2021
Best Special Visual Effects
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Before & After
In the Media
Chaos
How V-Ray powered up Free Guy’s visual effects
Free Guy brings videogame mayhem to the big screen. Scanline VFX Supervisor Bryan Grill tells us how rendering with V-Ray for 3ds Max helped control the action.
befores & afters
Build a city, destroy a city, and put Ryan Reynold’s head on a body builder’s shoulders.
We chat to the VFX team behind Free Guy. Hear from visual effects supervisor Swen Gillberg, Scanline VFX visual effects supervisor Bryan Grill and Digital Domain visual effects supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis, who discuss city building, city destruction and the Ryan Reynolds face replacements.
Slash Film
Free Guy VFX Team On Their 25 Years Of Experience, Film Vs Digital, And Crafting That Opening Oner [Interview]
Ahead of the film's streaming debut on Disney+ in just a few weeks, I had the pleasure to talk to longtime VFX Supervisor Swen Gillberg ("Avengers: Endgame," "Avengers: Infinity War," "Furious 7," "Real Steel," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"), who /Film's Jack Giroux also interviewed in 2021.
Screen Rant
Free Guy VFX Interview - Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill & Nikos Kalaitzidis
Free Guy brought a video-game world to life on the big screen - and Screen Rant spoke exclusively to the VFX team who pulled it off so well.
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Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories.
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