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How They Made ‘Speed Racer’ Look Like That


In this week’s issue of New York, Logan Hill talks with effects gurus John Gaeta and Dan Glass, the magicians who invented “bullet time” and who are behind the candy-colored look of Speed Racer, which closes out this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Gaeta and Glass went into greater detail than we could include in the magazine, so if you are the kind of nerd — as we are — who is really interested in things like race-car design, depth of field, and artificial lens flare, check out our totally fascinating Vulture slideshow. Seriously — how did they make Speed Racer look like that?

How They Made ‘Speed Racer’ Look Like That