The Industry hosted an FYC awards panel with the Oscar-nominated team from Apple’s F1.
It was a great event, and the Oscar-nominated VFX and SFX Supervisors deep dived into:
How the team pulled off the wild car crash scene. We go frame by frame through the scene, then flip to the BTS footage of launching a full-size car down a monorail via nitrogen ram.
The genius way in which they turned live F1 low-res broadcast footage into ultra-cinematic sleekness to match IMAX quality.
How they turned an actual F1 car into a high-speed VFX tool using the production’s “monster fisheye” 8-camera rig.
All that and more in the above panel.
Panel Participants:
VFX Supervisor - Ryan Tudhope
Previous: Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Ad Astra (2019), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Deadpool (2016), Rogue One (2016), Looper (2012).
VFX Supervisor - Nicolas Chevallier
Previous: The Fall Guy (2024), The Revenant (2015), Thor (2011), The Dark Knight (2008), and a CG artist on The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
VFX Supervisor - Robert Harrington
Previous: Thunderbolts* (2025), His Dark Materials (2019-2022), The Sandman (2022), CG Supervisor: Black Mirror.
SFX Supervisor - Keith Dawson
Previous: Back in Action (2025), Asst SFX supervisor: Napoleon (2023), MI:7 (2023), Co-supervisor: Ready Player One (2018), asst SFX sup: The Martian (2015).
I found the panel fascinating, especially some of the discussions towards the end about AI and the F1 team’s philosophy about the 30-year legacy of their industry.
