‘It was a pretty tricky technical exercise’: How Framestore finessed ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’

'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' (Image: Jasin Boland)

When a young Furiosa is taken from her home in the lush green place and transported to the camp of warlord Dementus in George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the sand underneath the motorbikes of her captors transitions from pristine white to a more gravelly red, reflecting the harsher plains of the desert.

The shift in the dunes’ appearance fell to Framestore Melbourne to communicate, given the sequence itself was shot in a vacant lot in Kurnell.

According to VFX supervisor Josh Simmonds, it was a...