Visual effects supervisor Swen Gillberg scanned star Ryan Reynolds 'every which way you can imagine' for the action comedy set inside a multiplayer role-playing game.
Work on Reynolds — including head replacement and creation of a digital stunt double — involved a significant amount of work. “I ran Ryan through the gauntlet, which means I scanned him every which way you can imagine,” admits Gillberg of the starting point for the VFX. “We did our traditional photogrammetry scanning. We also sent him to [USC’s] Institute for Creative Technologies to do a high-resolution facial scan.
Face replacement was used to create Dude, a heightened version of Guy, which involved working with VFX studio Lola to capture Reynolds’ facial expressions and apply his likeness and movement to the on-set performance of bodybuilder Aaron Reed. “Ryan would do his part against either Aaron or his body double,” says Gillberg of these scenes. “Then Ryan would do Dude’s side as a reference for Aaron to try to get the comedy and the mannerisms.
Another was the scene during which Antwan destroys the servers — and therefore, Free City. “We came up with a different look,” he says of what involved R&D work. “The buildings actually fold in on themselves. They don’t explode. The destruction of the city was [about] coming up with something that felt like a computer was destroying it.”
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