Journey 2 the Mysterious Island is a 2012 American Science fantasy action adventure
film and sequel to the 2008 movie Journey to the Center of the Earth and just like its
predecessor it's based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name although the novel
states that the creatures on the island were unusually large the incorporation of
gigantic creatures actually originated from Ray harryhausen's 1961 version of the film
MPC had an in-house iguana that they studied for textures and movement it was clear that
the musculature they needed to support this 15-ton lizard would have to be quite large so
they started with the muscles and then figured out the flexing and the skin on top of that
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features several scenes where Digi doubles were necessary to complete Dynamic shots
light stage LLC recorded the actor's facial expressions at the level of poor detail and
all facial and full body data lighting and textures were captured in just a few hours
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for the sequence where the heroes are riding giant
bees and being chased by birds Rising Sun Pictures augmented aerial footage
from the location shoot in Kauai with a 3D virtual jungle they created [Music]
for the bees on location the production team shot background in aerial plates based on the
third floor's previous a later shoot in North Carolina Incorporated the actors
riding on b-bucks shot against a green screen thank you [Music]
even though principal photography was mainly shot in Hawaii due to the way the actors had to
interact with these enormous creatures and how the creatures themselves had to interact with
the environment around them a lot of the Jungle foliage had to be digitally replaced or augmented
foreign
Journey 2 is a kids movie so the studio wanted to follow its predecessor Journey to the Center
of the Earth and make it a 3D movie however shooting in Stereo meant the entire film and
its sequences had to be conceived that way one interesting thing they found out
was that you need a minimum of 15 frames for your brain to understand a 3D image and more
like 18 frames in order to properly register it to accommodate this the edits and Camera
moves were slowed down and the depth of the 3D image was flattened out in some sequences to
make it a little easier for the brain to read [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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