Not content with the level of visual spectacle in the upcoming summer blockbuster Green Lantern, Warner Bros has decided to spend another 9 million dollars over the film’s original $45 million FX budget for last minute work and additions. Despite a second trailer that largely blew people away with its visuals, Lantern producers seem to still be a little skittish about response to the film’s first trailer, where unfinished FX gave a bad first impression. Green Lantern’s problem is becoming an industry wide one, where condensed post production schedules are butting heads with more and more films demanding huge amounts of visual effects to create an environment where FX work is all rushed, all the time. Without naming names, we all know that we’ve seen a couple productions lately where the FX work just wasn’t up to the standards of modern technology, and if things keep going in the direction they are, it’s probably only a matter of time before some big film isn’t able to complete its FX work on schedule at all.

The Visual FX Supervisor for Terminator Salvation gave us some of his time to discuss the concepts behind creating the world after the bombs fell.