'The Irishman,' 'Gemini Man,' 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' and 'Avengers: Endgame' are among the VFX contenders on the Oscar shortlist.
Remember when visual effects were mostly associated with explosions, superpowers and other adventures some respected directors might not consider “cinema”? Now, even those filmmakers are taking advantage of the storytelling doors modern technology is opening.moves back and forth over decades to arrive at a somber meditation on regret.
With Industrial Light and Magic, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and the Arri Group, the filmmakers developed a new kind of rig -- a “three-headed monster” that flanked the main camera with two infrared cameras. Beyond the initial task of peeling decades off the performers, the VFX team also had to stay true to the characters, rather than, perhaps, viewers’ expectations.
His action film pits one of the best-known movie stars in the world, 51-year-old Will Smith, against a 20-something ... Will Smith. Sort of.“Junior,” the younger version of Smith, isn’t a de-aged motion-capture performance by the actor; it’s a totally synthetic, digital human. That meant, for instance, stunt performers and stand-ins didn’t have to hide their faces.
The technology pioneered by Weta Digital for “The Lord of the Rings” had already proved audiences could accept entirely digital characters. “Gemini Man” VFX supervisor Guy Williams said they moved the process forward by, for instance, “rewriting the way we dealt with skin — treating skin as colors that occur at different depths.” The problem, he says, was Will Smith.
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