Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer and Taika Waititi, revolves around the tale of a bank teller who discovers he’s a non-player character inside a brutal, open-world video game. For Viet and his team, this meant building a hyperreal, kaleidoscopic, neon-tinted RPG game world full of all the things one might expect of such an environment—explosions, rocket launchers, and fighter jets storming through busy city intersections.
Below, Viet reveals how he and his team worked to create Free Guy’s extraordinary video game aesthetic and plant Ryan Reynolds within a simulated virtual cityscape—and how cineSync helped the team collaborate during the upheaval of lockdown.