EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani took home the statuette at the Primetime Emmy Awards 2024 in the category “Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Single Episode”, thanks to a team of excellence, supervised by Gaia Bussolati, involved in the Netflix series Ripley, based on the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and directed by Steven Zaillian.
In more than 100 scenes of the eight episodes of the miniseries, he was the studio’s visual effects artist, but it was especially for the one entitled “Il sommerso” (The Drowned), for which he took care of the set extension work, recreating the San Remo landscape that serves as the backdrop for one of the story’s most central moments, that earned him an Emmy win. In the same episode, the lighthouse in the background of the scene of bathers playing on the shore was originally shot in Anzio, and in post production surrounded by mountains and a Ligurian landscape.
The first scene they worked on was the chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, a scene shot in Naples with green screen and reworked later to readapt the proportions of the chapel, which were not the same as the one we had to reconstruct. In ‘Divertimento macabro’, on the other hand, they reconstructed Caravaggio’s ‘Natività con i santi Lorenzo e Francesco d’Assisi’ painting in Palermo, stolen in 1969, for which they performed a reconstruction faithful to the brushstroke, the cracks and the texture of the canvas.
“We proudly export the art of visual effects made in Italy all over the world, being a constant presence in films and series of American majors, and this Emmy Award victory gives us a great satisfaction that consecrates us as a leader also in international projects,” said Francesco Grisi, CEO of EDI.
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