As Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues to be one of the most successful 2023 movie releases, the film’s VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson has just shed some light on a common misconceptions about the making of the biopic. Ahead of the movie’s release, Nolan memorably shared that the Trinity Test was recreated for the movie “without the use of computer graphics,” but due to those statements, Jackson has felt he needed to clarify how the scene was made.
While the atomic explosion you see in Oppenheimer is not in fact a computer generated image of the first nuclear weapon detonation, Jackson cleared up how the sequence was achieved. Per his interview with The Hollywood Reporter,
