three-two-one playback!
hey guys so a few months entry fox sent me an email asking if i'd
like to travel to new zealand to visit Wetty the special effects company
responsible for some of the biggest and best movies out there from Avatar to
Laura the Rings and most superhero flicks anyway they're doing some
promotional material for the new movie war for the play on the 8th and they
wanted to send a few youtubers to see the behind the scenes magic that make
these movies come to life a free trip to New Zealand and I get to see how movies
are made needless to say I said yes and I've got a plane to catch
hi guys so I just landed New Zealand - about 30 hours transit simply took off
in Canada actually feeling pretty good I'm surprised I'm not very jet-lagged hi
good ordered some bring breakfast meal with the white of croissant a lot say
anyways actually I get going now so see you guys in motion cap suits
neither one Watts led so that potential are light and with strobing them so
there in time the shadow of the camera so we're actually overpowering them so
you need more more juice
so we'll start with a scale okay like fit the model to your side so we can
even track your slide okay and then once we get to scale down and do a bit of a
dance so you know to get all the kind of to
get all the kind of micro distances and all the relation cool and then straight
back just to come out here a little bit closer towards me yep great just perfect
and look straight ahead straight back go for Lindsay
all right does it take a snapshot you got it yeah all right cool relax so you
can have a look there we can get to get over tracking down some kind of similar
pose just the same thing so we'll just hope you back in there and
we ahead can ride up down forward backward shoulders
so that's basically you
all right great so we've taken that scene that we you
would have seen the movie last night yeah let's Cesar coming through the
trench post-battle there'll be Apes wounded and dealing with each other on
either side and Caesar will be the camera and rather camera with Caesar
so we'll see from the cameras point of view we'll see the Apes open up and
they'll review you down at the end of the track and you'll notice Caesar and
and this is this is part of the process where it can be a little bit
collaborative if you and or all thing
you
got to think okay come on Jen what we did like what would we say we're like
would separate you out like yeah yeah way like your arms are going through the
other guy exactly we'd make a little adjustment okay the whole like that
holding on back a little bit or just just a quickie apart a little bit yeah
he could cross elbows yeah it's like that sort of thing where your your arms
are going through here yeah we did we did that's tied a whole nother go like
how long will that take - I'm fixin finish oh yeah I mean it's really depend
in the shop but it could be anywhere from a couple days to a few weeks so we
enhance when I try it you feel good about that and I think it's good awesome
all right thanks so much thank you nice job
miles pretty tall trees warm another thing I'm thinking right what do you
think how many reams of paper is that per tree oh that's it
Louise you guys on your hands yeah yeah like that's one solid stack of Crayola
construction right there cane is clear in it I'm not even joking with this yeah
yeah that's the brown teal oh my god enormous yeah that one's good the other
day nobody's got like a radio transmitter
yes you go in there happens you go in there going ah Oh God for pork but
that's literally what it says more parking
Wow damn the shag that's okay watch your bird danger he come on throw
my blood Oh familiar with these Texas gross what the hell is that thing that's
actually fictional Lord of the Rings animal called it's it's called
hmm uncool rat thank you look I've got not developed chin days
grab a seat and we'll get your sorted so if you look up and down and letter right
you'll see that the camera all the time of course because it's mounted to your
head is looking at your face so we'll isolate it any extra movement
in your body from your facial expression or for every performer and we have this
vacuum molded face mask oh yeah and on the first day of shooting we will lay
out a Marcus it on their face so it's the same markers for each performer but
position exactly sort of over important parts of space so for each performer we
align the bone and the camera so the camera is positioned just between the
nose and the upper lip okay so that we sort of get the camera at right angles
to the plane of the face this allows us to really get what the face is doing
without too much the way of distortion and without putting too much emphasis
and so for a room what we might do is start with a neutral so just look
straight ahead look at camera two straight ahead just just try to hear it
okay and now browse up okay now wrinkle your
nose up yes right up yes okay cool and big smile
okay and a big sort of pucker okay and finally lips oh look yep
and now eight space yeah when a big smile boom go and puff out your cheeks
and supplement prolific and then that can be transferred bit say from you to a
pub review and then if you were playing Caesar to pop of Caesar yep right so
thank you very much thank you feel fun okay we'll get this off change dead yeah
so yeah here we are consider Maya and this is the team set up to keyframe
facial components love bad a pic and using Steve's on okay so here I'm gonna
scoot over to the four stripes and if you use G to a editing software very
similar where yep it's a cup of tile on timeline and you can see if you are here
doing in the video so this is um look to keep friends I
think so just this little under three seconds yeah so we're gonna start off on
the first time here and she's only heard Dan talking about
how you for John I mentioned we layer it up we start my job and write a little
heretical and that's how we actually know what we do it but here just to
speed things up we're just going to find a single pose and try to mimic it okay
okay so from here I'll give you some pointers and along let's browse up yeah
so we can go to the ground so many things so if you don't want to use this
you can definitely use this overall can set up for you happy waving Brown yeah
okay how to browse up a bit more yeah yeah yeah that's likely pretty good go
to your animation that's gonna play right here ya go three frames I'll you
did too that's so cool alright that's awesome thanks lady
part of the trip also allowed me to interview some of the stars from the
movie as well as the amazing people behind the special effects things helps
in sometimes me hello I'm doing great how are you very gentle pen hi Matt how
are you Jim Thompson oh thank you hi James how are you not do that are you
good good thank you well thanks yes thank you may be well
spent oh thank you thank you James pleasure thank you good
play thanks for uh I even got to tell a few of them about the channel yeah I saw
that unless I was like what's the hexan so what we do is that we actually try
and take movie technology that's using CGI and can I make real working
prototypes right and we do this to inspire youth into engineering and oh
that sounds great so for example we've done lots of Batman gadgets right
Captain America shield right and even try and fly like Iron Man oh well that's
cool though I don't think Matt Reeves is going to be calling me back anytime soon
to provide real working props for the next Batman movie really excited to see
what you do it's bat oh cool oh cool and obviously if you need some back edges
let me know alright cool to see those interviews in their entirety you're
going to have to head over to our vlog channel you can click link right there
or in the description below there's also some other behind the scenes
content that we didn't put in this video as for the movie itself I got to see it
twice now first time in Peter Jackson's private cinema which is awesome and I
got to say it's a really good movie and if you guys are a fan of the franchise
you should totally check it out it's coming to theaters July 14th and a big
THANK YOU to 20th Century Fox for sending me on this awesome learning
experience learning about how those movies are actually made and how the CGI
is actually done and you never know we might even use some of those techniques
ourselves so I know a buttload Minh sign ennoble :
SIA no trouble any problem anything just vitamin b12