io9.gizmodo.com: To make the bond between Mija (An Seo Hyun) and the giant super pig she befriends in the forest as believable as possible, the VFX team behind Netflix’s Okja came up with several different ways for the young actress to interact with a physical representation of the CG beast on set, including this hilariously bad foam-wrapped costume they affectionately called the stuffie.
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Oh my goodness, this looks so cute! Just based on this quick GIF, it is incredible to see how far CGI technology has come in recent years. I think it’s impressive that studios are now able to edit a scene with a person in a costume like this out without the need of the dots that you often see in these behind the scene looks. The animation in “Okja” was astounding and beautiful and just thinking about it makes me want to go back and rewatch just for the CGI. The movie really brought the super pig to life and gave it the necessary animal characteristics, but not crossing the line of personification, which I think can be really easy to fall into. This movie was a lot to process at first, but the story always fell back on the relationship between Mija and Okja so it was necessary for the animal to be so realistic.
I cannot believe that this creature was rendered completely digitally. The abilities or computers and animations have to add and alter the physical world through technology is amazing. The animation team literally built this creature from the skeleton up, simply using these "stuffies" as a reference for size and speed. The use of the stuffies to create a more physical and emotional reaction to the creature that was not there shows amazing attention to detail. I think it's amazing that the actors began to have an emotional reaction and connection with the foam, simply because they were so immersed in the world of the production. Although I have not seen this movie, I have seen Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, which is my favorite movie ever. Joon-ho pays so much attention to the details, making sure that every action and reaction are as realistic as they can be for the world he has created, and the almost comical use of the stuffies proves that even further. I will put this movie on my list of things to watch.
First off, what the heck is this show about. Not only is there a massive rhino pig, but there’s the army and what looks like assassins. I am so confused as to the plot. There’s jungle shots like jungle book or how to train your dragon and then urban chase scenes like it’s a superhero action movie. The animation behind the scenes is really interesting, but I can’t help but feel like we’ve made more realistic looking CGI. They definitely took on a challenge trying to make such a massive animal look real, but I don’t think they were as successful as they make it seem like they were. I am impressed that they made so many parts of the rhino pig because usually CGI fils will just have the like green ball. I can imagine that it made the integration with the computer a lot smoother since they had everything they needed to work with as far as human to CGI contact from the shoot.
Having seen the movie before watching this and finding out that they actually used disembodied parts to create this effect, I'm honestly not all that surprised. Even from watching the trailer several months ago, I knew there had to be some kind of intensive vfx work done to portray Okja. As the video mentioned, the relationship between the two main characters had to be incredibly intimate and realistic. The challenge exists in the fact that one of the two main characters is a massive super pig. I can only imagine how long the setup of each of these shots took considering that they were essentially using massive puppets in nearly every scene. It must have been incredibly tiring on the performers who were moving and operating the large Okja parts. Not to mention the fact that the younger female actress had to portray realistic human emotion while in reality staring at a giant foam face, or butt, or stomach, etc.
I love the VFX industry and the numerous innovative ways that they achieve the incredible things that they do. Watching the video to see how the “stuffies” interacted with the actors and the way that it brought Okja into the real world is really fascinating. To use a partial puppet to try and create a creature of such a massive scale is an interesting approach to the challenge. I love how the physical presence of the “stuffy” can make a scene so much more intimate for the actors and make a much more believable scene. It also manages to serve a dual purpose by making it easier for the animators to place Okja into the scene. This movie has been on my list to watch for months now, and I think it’s time that I sit down and watch this movie.
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