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Greig Fraser says The Volume VFX is seamless & incredible when used correctly but when “used gratuitously or for the sake of it, it stands out and it becomes obvious.”

I’m really a fan of the way you marry technology with practical tactile imagery, particularly in the way you did with “The Batman” and the way you always speak to some of these things as just tools in the arsenal to tell the story, but I assume you guys didn’t use any of The Volume technology on this film? No, we did not use it in this film, and we did not find a use for it. And this is one of the great things about The Volume is when used in the right way, I think it’s seamless and I think it’s an amazing tool.

Roger Deakins famously praised your lighting on Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” and in the same way, especially that marriage of new technology and classic filmmaking techniques. Like the Volume and cutting-edge technology, then grounded gritty things like “The Batman” and “Dune,” and then something like Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator,” where it seems like he eschewed a lot of the traditional ways of shooting a VFX-heavy movie. Oh yeah, that movie was a massive challenge, and you think about when it came out as well—it came out at a not dissimilar time to “ Oppenheimer,” and from a technical standpoint, they had very similar sort of budgets, but very different techniques on how they were shot.

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