The film’s production visual effects supervisor was John Nelson and this sequence was handled by Double Negative, with Paul Lambert as DNeg’s Supervisor. The audience need to understand that K was with Mariette, but seeing Joi, and the film-makers had already decided against making Joi appear as a classically depicted blue glowing hologram with interference lines. While there are many thematic and ethical conversations to be sparked by the relationship that a synthetic ‘skin job’ can have with a digital presence, it posed a complex problem for the visual effects team to solve. Perhaps one of the most original visual effects sequences in Blade Runner 2049 was the touching sex scene between K played by Ryan Gosling, and his personal cognitive agent Joi, played by Ana de Armas, while he is actually being physical with sex worker Mariette (Mackenzie Davis).
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