In ‘Face Off’, the final season four episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad, the notorious Gus character meets his gruesome end via a homemade bomb detonated inside a nursing home. Gus’ death is revealed in a single shot, showing first the explosion and then actor Giancarlo Esposito’s disfigured face, before he collapses. Visual effects supervisor and producer William Powloski of Velocity FX takes us through the practical and digital work for the stunning shot.
fxg: How was that particular sequence conceived, in terms of what would be shot live action and what would be a visual effect?
Powloski: It was a real team effort from just about everybody on the show. In January this year, I was having a meeting with one of the producers when Vince Gilligan – the creator of the show and the writer and director of this particular episode – popped his head in and said, ‘I want to do a shot where there’s an explosion, somebody comes out of the room, the camera sweeps around and we see that half of his face is gone.’
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