Cruel Summer

A flashlight is used to shatter a window in an episode of Cruel Summer
A flashlight is used to shatter a window in an episode of Cruel Summer, with VFX completed by Foxtrot X-Ray

A flashlight shatters digital glass for Cruel Summer. Move the slider to toggle between before and after.

Project Type

Episodic

Network

Freeform

Production ompany

Iron Ocean Films

Showrunners

Tia Napolitano

Elle Triedman

Cruel Summer is an unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers--1993, 1994, and 1995--in a small Texas town as a beautiful, popular teen, Kate, is abducted and a seemingly-unrelated girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet loner to the most popular girl in town--and by 1995, the most-despised person in America. (IMDb)

Foxtrot X-Ray collaborated with our friends at Austin, TX’s Moontower VFX for 5 episodes of Freeform’s hit series "Cruel Summer.” Foxtrot X-Ray contributed 67 shots, including cleanup, day for night, screen comps, greenscreen / bluescreen, relighting, and some time-bending effects as the show shifts from one timeframe to another in what appear to be seamless shots.

Here’s one of many, many trailers for Season 1!