Union VFX Shares Poor Things VFX Breakdown Reel [Video]

Union VFX has shared a breakdown real demonstrating the company’s outstanding contributions to Yorgos Lanthimos’ BAFTA winning, Oscar nominated feature, Poor Things. From Element Pictures for Searchlight Pictures, the film stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, and Ramy Youssef. It is written by Tony McNamara and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray.

The plot focuses on Bella Baxter, a young Victorian woman brought back to life by the unorthodox Dr. Godwin Baxter. Hungry for the world, Bella runs off on cross-continent adventures with debauched lawyer Duncan Wedderburn and, in time, grows steadfast in her stand for equality and liberation.

Described by Union VFX, Poor Things embraces “authentic artificiality like an old Hollywood production, blending this classical sensibility with the film’s more fantastical, science-fiction-driven aesthetic to truly revolutionary results.”

These surreal settings were crafted from Yorgos Lanthimos’ vision in partnership with production designers James Price and Shona Heath, cinematographer Robbie Ryan, …