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Luke Bracey’s character may be driving a car for the majority of John Curran’s noirish psychological thriller Mercy Road, but during filming, the actor was set firmly in the Heretic Foundation’s studio in Sydney’s inner west.
The environments that surround the titular road were created in real-time via the use of an in-camera compositing technique involving LED screens and Unreal Engine.
In what is believed to be the country’s first fully virtual feature shoot, VFX supervisor Andrew...