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Thursday, December 08, 2022
Visual Effects of Black Adam, Doctor Strange, Jurassic World and More
The Hollywood Reporter: VFX pros explain how they staged Batmobile crashes, captured aliens in the night sky and created an underwater kingdom in some of the year’s biggest tentpole releases.
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Sophie Rodriguez
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The way that these movies are created is so fascinating to me. I love seeing footage of things like the car scenes, where the filmed vehicle is driven by another car via a connection etc… The mentioned scene where there are 20 different worlds morphing into one sounds like a beautiful scene, it’s interesting to read about the scene and then watch it, instead of watching then reading. Wakanda Forever having 2,233 shots that required visual effects did not surprise me, but that movie looked incredible from start to finish. The Jurassic World movies are ones that I have always loved, when I heard that the latest movie would include dinosaurs with feathers, I was interested to see how they would look throughout the movie. The movie ended up looking incredible, the fluidity in the movement of the feathers is such a small detail, but it is one of those details that makes the entire movie look that much better.
Visual effects will always be fascinating to me. It is always so very interesting to me to learn about the process behind the development of visual effect shots from concept to execution. It is also often very astounding how many individual shots are in a single film. Marvel movies, especially, being so action packed, have such short shot lengths in the final cut of the film. For instance, one example given in the article is the recent Black Panther film, consisting of over 2,500 shots, which equates to an unweighted average of about three and a half seconds per shot. This isn’t even the shortest shot average – I read somewhere recently about the movies/television shows that have the shortest shot length, with the shortest being about a second (Mad Max: Fury Road if I am not mistaken). Regardless, it is still astounding to think that 2,233 of the 2,548 shots in the final cut of Black Panther used visual effects – that is a resounding 87 percent of the shots in the film. The amount of time and effort that went into that is incredible.
This is amazing to read about. Honestly, I have never conceptualized how much work goes into visual effects such as these. I knew it was stunning work, but never realized that there are thousands of visual effects that all go into making one picture. I was particularly impressed with the feather dinosaur from Jurassic World. I would love to see the tools that these artists use to create these effects in person and watch them work because this has always been fascinating to me. I love reading about Disney animation and those types of effects like Elsa from Frozen’s hair and how each strand of hair was created and animated. The work is painstaking I imagine but it definitely pays off with so many entertained people. I’m wondering if it is mostly the same people that make up visual effects teams or if there are large firms that work on these types of things. I would be interested to know more about this.
3 comments:
The way that these movies are created is so fascinating to me. I love seeing footage of things like the car scenes, where the filmed vehicle is driven by another car via a connection etc… The mentioned scene where there are 20 different worlds morphing into one sounds like a beautiful scene, it’s interesting to read about the scene and then watch it, instead of watching then reading. Wakanda Forever having 2,233 shots that required visual effects did not surprise me, but that movie looked incredible from start to finish. The Jurassic World movies are ones that I have always loved, when I heard that the latest movie would include dinosaurs with feathers, I was interested to see how they would look throughout the movie. The movie ended up looking incredible, the fluidity in the movement of the feathers is such a small detail, but it is one of those details that makes the entire movie look that much better.
Visual effects will always be fascinating to me. It is always so very interesting to me to learn about the process behind the development of visual effect shots from concept to execution. It is also often very astounding how many individual shots are in a single film. Marvel movies, especially, being so action packed, have such short shot lengths in the final cut of the film. For instance, one example given in the article is the recent Black Panther film, consisting of over 2,500 shots, which equates to an unweighted average of about three and a half seconds per shot. This isn’t even the shortest shot average – I read somewhere recently about the movies/television shows that have the shortest shot length, with the shortest being about a second (Mad Max: Fury Road if I am not mistaken). Regardless, it is still astounding to think that 2,233 of the 2,548 shots in the final cut of Black Panther used visual effects – that is a resounding 87 percent of the shots in the film. The amount of time and effort that went into that is incredible.
This is amazing to read about. Honestly, I have never conceptualized how much work goes into visual effects such as these. I knew it was stunning work, but never realized that there are thousands of visual effects that all go into making one picture. I was particularly impressed with the feather dinosaur from Jurassic World. I would love to see the tools that these artists use to create these effects in person and watch them work because this has always been fascinating to me. I love reading about Disney animation and those types of effects like Elsa from Frozen’s hair and how each strand of hair was created and animated. The work is painstaking I imagine but it definitely pays off with so many entertained people. I’m wondering if it is mostly the same people that make up visual effects teams or if there are large firms that work on these types of things. I would be interested to know more about this.
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