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An enviable group of award-winning visual effects supervisors powered Super 8 ’s post-production. At Industrial Light & Magic, Kim Libreri (Oscar nomination, Poseidon ; Academy Sci-Tech award) Russell Earl (two Oscar nominations, for Star Trek and Transformers ) and Dennis Muren (six Oscars, 13 Oscar nominations, two special achievement awards from the Academy, and one Sci-Tech award). At Scanline, it was Stephan Trojansky (Oscar nomination for Hereafter ). We talked with Kim Libreri about VFX production for what could be this summer’s favorite family film.

In Super 8 , a group of friends making an amateur zombie film find themselves in the middle of a sci-fi monster movie adventure starring, in addition to the young cast, spectacular and finely integrated visual effects. Writer-director J.J. Abrams set Super 8 in 1979, the year he turned 13 and the year Ridley Scott released Alien . It was two years after Super 8 producer Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and George Lucas’s first Star Wars . 1978 saw the classic zombie movie Dawn of the Dead released. Thinking of this movie as a multi-layered homage filled with easter eggs is an understatement. “When we were filming it, I’d see these plastic models in the kids’ rooms that I made when I was a kid,” says Kim Libreri, visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. “In 1979, both J.J. and I were the same age as the kids are in the movie. And the funny thing is that [ Super 8 cinematographer] Larry Fong and J.J. used to make Super-8 movies when they were kids.” ILM, which had created effects for Abrams’ Star Trek , became involved early, helping the director create a teaser trailer about 14 months before the film’s release. “Shortly after the completion of the teaser, the script was ready and we started shooting the real movie in late September 2010,” Libreri says. “We shot for three months, until Christmas [2010], and then post pretty much happened over a five-month period. Incredibly quick. J.J. is very visual-effects savvy; he had planned the whole movie to work within the constraints of a super-short schedule. We supervised all the visual effects and designed the heavy scenes here at ILM. Then we completed some of the work with help from a group of partner companies.

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