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In this video, we're going to take a look at just a few of the many VFX that went into Obi Wan Kenobi. But, as is the case with the majority of modern productions these VFX wouldn't have been quite as convincing or achieved in such a timely manner without previs work from The Third Floor.
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In addition to blocking and planning shots within each episode across several phases of filmmaking
The Third Floor’s visualization work also included the creation of previs that the team could explore for camera and lighting, with some scenes blocked in real time in game engine.
Image Engine delivered several sequences on the barren and mountainous Mapuzo.
One of Image Engine’s first sequences in the episode captures Obi-Wan and Leia’s craft touching down on the planet. The first three shots of the landing sequence are 100% CG.
Most of episode 3 was shot on location in California, so some shots required extensions rather than full CG creations.
The landscapes were a combination of Lidar, photogrammetry, and hand-sculpted topography.
Image Engine built a whole kit of Star Wars parts for these extensions including plants, rocks, and mountains and these were reused throughout several shots.
They used Houdini to procedurally lay out the windy plants and Joshua trees.
The sequence where Freck transports Obi-Wan and Leia toward the Imperial checkpoint had some unique challenges.
The external shots may seem straightforward enough: just remove the vehicle’s wheels and add a CG extension to the underside, so it looks like it’s floating, right?
But removing the lower parts of the vehicle also meant recreating the plants behind it, adding mountain extensions, and the CG vehicle extension, and any foreground plants, and some CG dust, and some extra Joshua trees and any other foreground action required in the shot.
For the ride-along shots Image Engine used a combination of plates and CG backgrounds. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough contiguous plate footage to cover the length of the journey so they created a full backdrop valley using the real California location.
Of course, the lighting conditions shot on the blue screen didn’t match the on-location lighting shot in California, so the plates had to be prepped and regraded to make everything work nicely.
The checkpoint sequence had a wide variety work, vehicle work, laser blasters, dust FX, environment extensions, and full CG shots.
They tried to keep as many practical elements as possible (like the on-location shoot, the Mining Rover, the tower, and Freck as the alien) to help ground the sequence in reality
For the Stormtrooper death shot, they layered a combination of sparks, heat, embers, smoke, and dust elements in order to give the effect enough realism without making it too disturbing.
In episode five, Obi-Wan and Leia escape to the rocky planet of Jabiim.
One of Image Engine’s sequences involved showing Vader’s two Imperial transports swooping down through crimson clouds towards the scattered, crater-like Path base.
The hardest part was giving the planet the characteristic "Star Wars" look.
They did this by using every other planet seen in previous Star Wars movies and television shows as reference.
The other important aspect of obtaining that "Star Wars" feel was the camera language.
They had to make sure the camera felt confined to the sort of motion control moves you could only achieve with miniature model shoots.
Hybride artists created desert set extensions, that stretched approximately 30 meters wide, for the Tatooine Canyon environment using concept art provided by Doug Chiang
The rock structures needed to be smooth and not too busy so they would blend in with the rock structures used on set during filming.
Hybride also recreated massive set extensions and extended backgrounds for the cliff environment, keeping as much of the foreground detail as possible.
Hybride artists also helped transform a camel named Silas into a Tatooine Eopie (a mammalian herbivore native to the planet).
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Filmmakers will use every trick they can to try and make us believe the story they're trying to tell. Whether these tricks are practical effects, visual effects, or camera tricks, filmmakers will always try to get as much real-life footage as possible to reduce the amount trickery needed, however, this can often result in some of the most dangerous looking scenes in the story of a movie also being some of the most dangerous to capture on film.
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Mission Impossible: Fallout.
Jackie "The One Man Show" Chan, prefers to do all his own stunts and Tom Cruise is of a similar opinion, so for the Helicopter Battle Scene in Mission Impossible: Fallout, he had a lot of work to do. This scene required him to put his helicopter into a corkscrew dive, even though Tom has flown helicopters before, the corkscrew dive is a dangerous and complicated procedure, so he went to Airbus Helicopter school in Texas and put in 8 hours a day for almost 3 months to learn how to do it relatively safely. In order to make the scene more visually appealing and to show that Tom was really flying the helicopter, the team set up external camera rigs on the helicopter to film what he was doing. This wasn't the only dangerous stunt in this scene, at one point, Tom has to climb a rope up to the helicopter, then, 1200ft in the air, lose his grip and fall 40 ft down hitting the rigging below, and catching it just as he bounces off.
Extraction.
The 12-minute extraction sequence in this scene seems like one seamless 12-minute take, but this isn't exactly true, The sequence is broken down into 7 different segments, a car chase, a run upstairs, a fight inside the building, a jump from one building's roof to another, a fall of an awning, a street fight and the final car chase, these seven segments were composed of 36 different shots invisibly woven together using complicated stunts, invisible cuts, cameramen on foot and hanging from harnesses, and incredibly well-rehearsed fight scenes. Each segment was precisely choreographed, not only for the actors but for the cameramen too.
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Project Power is a Netflix Film, which may look like your average superhero film, but in fact is something rather special. The idea is that a new illegal designer drug is being sold and if you take it, it gives you superpowers for 5 minutes. These superpowers, as well as their side effects, are unpredictable and dependant on the latent animal DNA inside each person.
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What makes this film special is, that unlike other superhero films, in this film, the superpowers aren't colorful, artist, and otherworldly. They are raw, crude, violent, and flawed. Framestore was the lead VFX producer on this 2-year project, and with help from Image Engine, Distillery, East Side Effects, and Outpost VFX, they produced over 1000 shots. The general idea being not to make incredible VFX shots but to use VFX to make shots look incredible.
Cuttlefish
A criminal uses the drug to commit a bank robbery, his superpower is based on the cuttlefish's ability to change its color and pattern.
To achieve this they re-built all the background, so the actor could be removed when he was "Camouflaged". All shots were "body tracked" so they could replace the body and have control over the body's moving pattern as it ran around.
Having decided that the criminal wouldn't be able to camouflage instantaneously and that the speed of the change would depend on his stress levels, The team developed a dynamic strobing effect which was created from different skin shader passes, and compositing artists picked out elements from the background to appear on his skin.
Additional texture and reflections were added and then they matched the lighting to the plate.
Headshot
One of the most spectacular moments in the movie is the unveiling of "Frank the policeman's" power, Armadillo-like armor. After chasing the bank robber, Frank finds himself on the wrong end of a gun and gets shot in the head.
To create this shot, a high-pressure airgun was used and the shot was filmed using a Phantom camera at 900 fps. The air blast was also filmed by a witness camera which gave them additional details.
The main work here was adding a bullet impact to where the air had hit, changing the hair movement to look less like it was being blown and more like an impact,
and to make "Frank's" skin resemble the armored, leathery skin of an armadillo.
In order to achieve this, Framestore had to build a Hi-resolution digital double.
On Fire
In this scene "Newt", a dealer who supplies the new drug, takes a pill to escape the protagonist "Art".
Newt's power, The ability to raise his temperatur
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Dubbed as a "Love Letter" to the classic, the original 1984 Ghostbusters.
Afterlife attempted to capture the magic of the original movie and also bring it all into the 21st century
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In order to do this, rather than concentrate on making things look modern and hyperrealistic, they had to concentrate on making sure they didn't.
The Proton Beam was something DNEG started working on early on when they had just begun principal photography.
On the camera test day, they had McKenna in the full Ghostbuster outfit and with the proton pack and they did some tests adding interactive lighting on set.
They started with something that was really similar to the 1984 version, including the colors, but after looking at the shot over and over they agreed that going toward something more advanced was a better choice.
So instead of the original big, stronger core beam and the other one overlapping, now there are actually millions of particles that give that final look and extra noise added on top of it. This gave the proton beam a modern look that at its heart still feels like the original.
All the ghosts started out as physical puppets built by Arjen Tuiten and his team.
They hand-sculped a very accurate replica of the Terror Dog from the original movie using nearly 300 kilos of clay.
They then used this as a mold for the foam latex "Skin" that would cover their animatronic puppet.
This puppet they used for close-ups and shots where they didn't have to show its whole body or show it moving excessively.
Then the VFX teams 3D scanned the Animatronic puppet and modeled their CG dog to look exactly like it.
The CG Terror dog was used in the full-body shots and in sequences where it had to run and jump.
In order to animate it they used a bull's behavior as a reference but also attempted to mimic the stop-motion animation look of the original movie.
There are other Ghost effects in the movie that were completely practical, like the Miner Ghost in the diner and even the scene where Ivo Shandor gets ripped in two.
Surprisingly enough, they actually built a puppet of J.K. Simmons and the entire effect was achieved practically.
with the dummy requiring only mild paintwork to hide the pre-rip seam on the clothing. Gozer too was based on the 1984 version.
And even though makeup took 5-1/2 hours to apply and consisted of various prosthetics, hair work, lenses, and a suit, in the end, the dynamics and lighting they had to add to give Gozer a powerful and menacing presence on set meant that a fully digital suit was preferred.
So Gozer from the neck down was CGI. This also allowed for a more surreal appearance as the team could lengthen her limbs. And while the team remained faithful to the performance, the composited face was often placed higher in the shot, and the leg and arms lengthened. As you can see here they slightly elongated her waist, arms, and legs, and made the body details a bit more translucent enhancing it all with bursts of energy traveling through her body.
But the most rewarding effect in Afterlife was also perhaps the most important, the most complex, and the most touching.
Harold Ramis who played Egon Spengler in the original Ghostbusters movie had sadly passed away 7 years before Afterlife was released but this "Love Letter" to the original could not be written without him.
One of the main problems was that the VFX teams didn't have any data for Harold, no life cast, no body scans, and no possibility of getting them.
Because we didn’t have any tangible data to start with, they decided the best approach was to first build a Digital Remis as he appeared in the 84 movie.
So they did high-res digital scans of the negatives of the original film and using single frames they built an exact replica of Remis, with a full set of expressions. Then they comped him in a shot of the 84 movie with Dan Aykroyd as a test to prove they had a near-perfect base before they began the aging process.
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The Harry Potter films gave birth to an array of new young actors and as time has passed since then, they've now all grown up.
What do they look like today? Well some have aged well while others not so much. Today we take a trip down memory lane (while keeping the present in mind) to compare the difference between the child actors from then and now.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT: Out of the Shadows are the first two films in a supposed three-film reboot. The first film was criticized for being dull and boring, lacking both imagination and fun, but it didn't do too badly at the box office. In the second film, they attempted to correct these errors and the film received better reviews but had a worse box office reception and so the third film was canceled. So if the second film was better why did it do so badly?
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The first reboot film received a lot of advertising and hype, this made people want to see it at the cinemas and so it did ok at the box office, however, the audience wasn't happy, and so when the second film came out, no matter how much hype it was given, the audience just wasn't excited enough to go and see it.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in 1984 by two comic book artists who were just having fun and trying to make each other laugh, they took their enthusiasm and their fun idea and developed it into a comic book. The excitement they put into the project could be felt in the comic book itself and readers also became enthused.
When the first film was released in 1990, the excitement felt by all the crew and production team involved was also apparent, and even though the turtles just looked like men in suits with mechanical, animatronic heads, people were excited to see them.
This "excited" energy is what the reboot films are missing, some people say that the reason for this lack of excitement is because they went from using practical effects to using digital effects and that digital effects lack "the soul" that practical effects have, and while we don't think this is the reason the films didn't do well, there may be a vein of truth in this..
Mechanical things have a certain something that Electronic things don't.
An analog wristwatch versus a digital one, a Steam train versus an Electric train, or an old dial radio against a digital tuner, the mechanical versions give us a warm intriguing feeling whilst their digital counterparts leave us cold.
This feeling isn't a lack of soul but rather a lack of understanding, with something mechanical it's easier to imagine the workings, we can assume one thing physically turns another which pushes something else and achieves a result. With digital, you push something and achieve a result, but the mechanics are invisible and kind of mysterious and so it's harder to picture and the mechanics feel more fanciful and less real.
However, once you begin to understand how digital things work, you begin to appreciate them more and then you realize that
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Jackie Chan is known for doing most of his own stunts, while this is ideal for filming action scenes it also puts the actors life in danger.
Here are 10 Times Jackie Chan ALMOST DIED Doing His Own Stunts!
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1. Drunken master 1978
Whilst filming a fight scene with Hwang jang-lee known as the king of the leg fighters, one of jang-lee’s kicks connected with Jackie's eyebrow, fracturing a piece of bone which caused Jackie to nearly lose an eye.
2. Project A 1983
In this scene Jackie's character “ma” clings to a six storey clock tower and falls through two awnings to the ground. The awnings were supposed to break his fall but instead they turned him in the air causing him to land on his head and injure his spine.
3. Police story 1985
Here Jackie had to jump to the pole, slide down, breaking the lights and fall through a fake glass roof to the floor. Unfortunately the bulbs had heated the pole causing him to burn his hands and the landing dislocated his pelvis and damaged two vertebrae.
4. Armour of God 1986
This was supposedly an easy stunt. Jackie had to jump from a slope to a tree but a slight error in calculation caused him to fall to the rocks below, cracking his skull and a piece of it lodged in his brain. He had to have surgery and still has a metal plate on his skull.
5. Armour of God 2 1991
This again was supposedly a simple stunt, jumping from a banner to a hanging chain but somehow Jackie lost his grip and fell to the ground, dislocating his sternum. A second take was impossible so it had to be cleverly edited out.
6. Crime story 1992
In this scene Jackie jumps to safety whilst narrowly avoiding getting crushed between two cars. Although there are no outtakes, Jackie says his legs were crushed between them in an earlier take, but luckily no serious damage was done.
7. Police story 3 super cop 1992
Here Jackie had to hold onto a rotating standpipe, whilst avoiding a helicopter as it landed on a train. but the pipe didn't rotate causing him to be hit by the helicopter, breaking a rib, cracking a cheekbone damaging his shoulder muscles.
8. The legend of Drunken master 1994
In the final fight scene Jackie has to fall backwards onto a bed of coals then scramble and roll off it whilst avoiding kicks. Although he sustained no serious injuries he did do two takes as the first one didn't “have the ri
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