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There’s a sizable amount of largely “invisible” visual effects work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, but more than a month after its release, that’s still not obvious to everyone.

“Some people have picked that up and taken it to mean that there’s no visual effects, which is clearly not true,” Oppenheimer‘s Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson tells The Hollywood Reporter.

One VFX moment is the scene recreating the Trinity Test during in which scientists, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy, detonated the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

In other words, the team at Nolan’s go-to VFX company DNEG took filmed images — such as smoke and explosions  — and used a computer program to layer them together to create the shots.

Of the visual approach to the movie, which was lensed in 65mm film with Imax cameras by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, Jackson relates that they didn’t try to make an exact copy of what the explosion would have looked like, nor did they want something too stylized.

… Some of them had like a lighting effect on the actors for the flash as the explosion went off.” Underscoring Nolan’s love of working with film, Jackson reports that they used optical, not digital, color timing during postproduction.

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