J. Edgar’s motorcades and marching bands

Clint Eastwood’s biopic J. Edgar follows the story of the first FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover, throughout his controversial 50 year career. To help portray some of the key events in Hoover’s time, such as presidential inaugurations of the 1930s and 60s in Washington D.C., the Broadway scene and the Chicago race riots, Eastwood turned to long-time visual effects collaborators Michael Owens and Method Studios in Vancouver. fxguide talks to Method about their crowd and virtual environment solutions for the film and approach to the invisible effects work.

Also, check out Mike Seymour's podcast interview with Michael Owens at fxguide here.