in this vfx breakdown of wonder woman we're going to take a look at some
massive digital environments cg planes trains and automatic rifles explosions guns running
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a lot of problems with filming a movie that is set in the world war one era are not only
that a lot of the architecture vehicles and infrastructure that existed back then
no longer exist today but also that a lot of the architecture vehicles and
infrastructure that exists today didn't exist back then
this meant that a huge amount of sets and scenery had to either be digitally extended
have something added or removed or like in the case of this military base be 100
computer generated and that included everything even soldiers that were in the background
the warehouse explosion was also computer generated
now london today is almost completely different from how it was over 100 years ago this meant that
upp had to digitally recreate a period correct london imitating how it would have looked back
in 1918 in addition to this the sets that were constructed for the live-action plate were rather
small and so the majority of shots required set extensions or cg buildings of some kind
pixo mondo was told that the train that was taking the soldiers to the docks had to be period correct
so the train was cgi the train station also had to be period correct so that too was cgi
and the docks ramps bridges and indeed the ship itself
all had to be period correct so all of that was also cgi
however one of the things that we spotted that actually isn't technically period correct is
the long-range bomber that steve trevor flies at the end of the movie this bomber didn't actually
exist as the german air force never used a bomber with four different engines in different nacelles
but even so it still doesn't really look out of place and it doesn't stop it from looking awesome
but not all the visual effects in wonder woman were there to solve the problem of the different
time era others were done to increase the impact of a scene like in the veld town sequence
where mpc added explosion enhancements dust and ground impacts oh yeah and this cg tank
vfx were also used to add detail to a shot as they did for wonder woman's glowing lasso which
in each of these shots was actually hand animated pretty cool vfx were also used just for aesthetic
purposes look at this scene for example you'll notice that the actress is running
isn't what you'd call heroic this is because it's actually quite hard to look good whilst running on
rough terrain and even when you're running in comfy boots or even sneakers because your
heels are going to be digitally added later so the filmmakers actually filmed shots like these
with the actress running on a treadmill in front of a green screen which actually looks quite
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disappointed now something incredibly surprising about the visual effects in
wonder woman is the tremendous amount of digi doubles and face replacements they had to do
in this themaskira beach fight scene there was a digi double for the general
one for the queen german soldiers like this guy and the occasional cg horse
principal photography for the themiscura scenes was shot on locations along the
italian amalfi coast and the old town of matera but somehow they needed to make this italian
landscape look like themyscira so they sent a photographer out to china to take high-res
photographs of the mountain ranges and so the mountain ranges in the background of this shot
are actually from the guangxi region of southern china and if you spotted
mr green who we've hidden back in the video let us know below and we'll respond to your comment