'One Piece' director Marc Jobst dives deep into the technical challenges of adapting Devil Fruit powers like Luffy's Gum-Gum stretching and Buggy's Chop-Chop limbs into live action.
team, the key to capturing Luffy's Gum-Gum powers was moving the camera along with his stretches.
"In the Alvida fight, it was less about showing the stretchy skills and more about showing the fun that he was having with the stretch," Jobst says. " He stretches out his arm and the camera goes out with it, you take it out into the black, then you turn the camera around and you show the hit." "I don't think any of us had quite done anything like that before," Jobst says of Buggy. "There was a period where someone would say, 'let's talk about Buggy,' and everyone else would go, 'oh no, is it lunchtime?' But then we sat around the table and were very honest with each other. The key thing was not to restrict the designers with practicalities.
"Our prosthetics guy, Yako, came up with this white glove that you could put your hand in and then green-screen away the arm, so you could manipulate a hand without seeing the rest of the limb," Jobst says. "We ran with that for a little bit, but then you start to work on it in rehearsal and you realize it's limited by always being at human height. It was really important to me that we went beyond that because audiences are super savvy these days and would figure it out.
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