the jungle book wasn't like your average
movie where you have live action plates
to which you have to add cg elements in
this film you had cg plates to which you
had to add the live action elements
which is pretty crazy this meant that
the previz stage of the filmmaking
process in this movie was perhaps the
most important
digital domain supplied the motion
capture system on the set and the low
res digital environment developed in
previz
these low res environments allow the
team to identify where the live action
was going to take place within the
digital environment so they could build
a small physical set with exactly the
same shape scale and inclination as the
digital one then by using digital
domains simulcam technology they could
see a real-time blue screen composite of
what they were shooting within their
digital environment which is so clever
another thing that had to be carefully
planned in previous was the lighting of
the blue screen sets these sets had to
be lit in such a way as to not conflict
with the lighting they intended for
their digital environment for example if
mowgli was running through a forest he
would be lit by the sunlight filtered
through the leaves above him and if
mowgli was strongly lit on the blue
screen set it would be a lot harder to
add all these different shadows made by
the leaves in post and so they used blue
leaves to cast shadows on mowgli on
their blue screen set genius
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for the overall design of the jungle
book animals they didn't reference the
1968 animated film instead they
referenced real animals first they
studied the anatomy of the creature they
wanted to build and then they would
create a skeleton based on its bone
structure that the animators could move
in a realistic way next they would build
the animal's muscle structure and skin
on top the facial rigging was the most
complicated because the animals had to
be able to talk realistically without
becoming too human or unrealistic
in order to accomplish this npc began by
mapping out facial muscles that the
animals have and making sure that they
could yawn and smile and do everything a
real animal could next they concentrated
on doing mouth shapes for speaking this
meant adding additional more human
muscles in order to give the animals
more control over their lip movements
for the hair and fur mpc had been
working on their own fur grooming tools
for a long time and for the jungle book
they used fertility this tool allowed a
lot of variation and complexity for the
length of the hairs their direction and
width and how they clump and mat
together and it just looks so real
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you can't just composite a live action
plate with a cg environment and expect
it to look wonderful a lot of subtle
details need to be included in order to
get it to sit within your environment
rather than just sit on it
as we mentioned earlier lighting is key
to getting an element to sit well in a
shot but interaction is also
in order to really become part of the cg
environment mowgli had to interact with
it and it had to interact with him when
mowgli had to ride on an animal the
actor was filmed on a motion-based rig
but this one had shoulder blades and
other actuators to give the capacity for
more complex movement
in these scenes the cg animal was
animated before they shot mowgli then
when they were going to shoot the scene
they programmed the motion rig to
imitate the motion of their cg animal
for hugging moments and times where
mowgli touches the animal furry puppets
were used on set they'd then track
mowgli and the puppet and match up their
digital one
when mowgli embraces the mother wolf
raksha they substituted mowgli's right
hand for a digital one in order to get
it to properly interact with the wolf cg
fur which just looks amazing
the visual effects of the jungle book
and the visual effects of every movie
for that matter are a bit like an
illusion an elaborate attempt to get the
audience to believe what they are seeing
is real unfortunately in one short video
we can't cover everything that goes on
in this vfx illusion in truth we can
barely scratch the surface
but what we can try to do and hopefully
manage to achieve is to show you the
amount of planning passion and artistry
that go into achieving the illusion and
some of the hard work involved
and perhaps that's for the better after
all a magic trick is always better when
you're not sure exactly how it's done
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