Marty Supreme

Marty Supreme reconstructs the world of competitive table tennis in the mid-1950s, moving between cramped New York clubs and packed tournament arenas in London and Tokyo. Production VFX supervisor Eran Dinur aimed to keep almost every visual effect invisible, relying on practical photography and limiting visual effects to extensions or replacements for what the crew could not physically build. Many of the film's crowded halls were shot with only a fraction of the extras needed, sometimes 30 people standing in for a crowd of 300; because handheld camera work made tiling repeated plates impossible to hold up, Folks and El Ranchito built fully CG audiences instead. Folks alone contributed more than 110 shots, extending environments and adding period accurate digital locations. The Artery took on a separate fully CG sequence, a stylised origin of life scene that opens the film. Chumak served as a senior digital matte painter on the film.