Today, EA Sports and Codemasters have revealed the updated content for October coming to F1 23. This will also include the ability to race against EA SPORTS ambassadors Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc across the upcoming Grand Prix’s in October. There is also a new Max Verstappen Pro Challenge video that can be watched below in celebration of his victory at the Japanese Grand Prix this past weekend. More chances to win exclusive in-game items is on the board, along with the long-waited addition of the F2 2023 season. Liveries will be updated to corresponding races, as well, to help coincide with the real world grand prix races. Max Verstappen currently holds first place in the championship by nearly double the points over second place, which is his teammate Sergio Perez. A list of the updates are below.
Thousands of real bugs and Family Feud combined for Righteous Gemstones’ chaotic finale
07.09.2023 - 20:05 / polygon.com
If you’re looking to end your season of TV with a bang, you might as well go biblical with it.
For The Righteous Gemstones’ riotous third season finale, “Wonders That Cannot Be Fathomed, Miracles That Cannot Be Counted,” that meant a full production of the Family Feud-inspired Bible game show Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers… and a literal plague of locusts. Those presented significant challenges for production designer Richard Wright.
First up was the Bible Bonkers set, which was heavily inspired by both the Richard Dawson and Steve Harvey versions of Family Feud. Wright says they wanted to give it a “little bit of a Gemstones twist,” like the giant sign of Baby Billy’s head that lived on the back wall of the Bible Bonkers set, right beside the show’s name.
That sign would end up being crucial to the finale’s action, which saw the set completely and utterly destroyed. Wright says his team got the direction that the sign would fall down and explode, and worked with director of photography Paul Daley and director Jody Hill on scenarios to accomplish that challenge and make it look good. First, the lightbulbs around the sign would explode, through a series of small explosions rigged by the team. Then, one sign would collide into another, causing Billy Baby’s giant face to fall on the ground, collide with one of Baby Billy’s “Bible Bonkers” who worked on the show, and roll away.
But two days before the shoot, with everything built and the team going through full-speed rehearsals for the set and its apocalyptic destruction, Hill threw in another wrinkle: The falling sign was deadly.
“We’re showing Jody how the sign is going to work and how it’s going to start rolling,” Wright says. “And he’s like, Well, that doesn’t seem like it’s going to be very gory. I mean, it’s not like I think it’s gonna kill the Bible Bonker. The room was silent. Everyone was like, Wait, the Bible Bonker dies? Jody’s like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it kills him. And I mean, for, like, six months, I don’t think any of us ever had envisioned anybody dying there. But there you go.”
The homicidal Baby Billy sign was just one challenge for the explosive finale. Gemstones caps the season off with a literal swarm of locusts. It feels appropriately biblical, filling up the studio in totality and causing mass panic as people try to avoid the buzzing insects. To accomplish the effect of the locust swarm, the Gemstones team used a combination of VFX and real bugs. That was a priority for VFX supervisor Bruce Branit, who Wright says always prefers to do as much in-camera as possible.
“If we can do it real, [Branit] can sweeten it rather than have to create it,” Wright says. “And so that’s always what we’re pushing for. And that’s what we did here as much as
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