Rebel Ridge features over 500 VFX shots, and VFX supervisor Chris Connolly now explains why they were needed and where to spot them. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier, Rebel Ridge stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, an ex-Marine attempting to pay his cousin’s bail who finds himself facing off against police Chief Sandy Burnne (Don Johnson) and his crew of corrupt officers. The Netflix thriller was met with positive reviews from audiences and critics upon its release in early September, due in part to its tense, grounded action sequences.
Connolly now sits down for an interview with Art of VFX, revealing that there are 502 VFX shots in Rebel Ridge. Some obvious moments that include VFX include Terry’s bike crash at the start of the film and various gunshots throughout, but there are plenty of far more invisible VFX shots as well. Connolly explains, for example, that VFX was used fairly heavily throughout several fight scenes to adjust actors’ movements and the timing of various elements in an effort to make these scenes more intense: