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The document provides details about the production of the movie Tron: Legacy, including the following key points:
1) The movie was fully planned and shot in 3D from the beginning to create a fully immersive digital world.
2) Digital Domain was tasked with bringing the digital world of Tron to life through visual effects and worked to design the world and characters like Clu based on references from the original film and actors.
3) Great care was taken to make the 3D effects, costumes, vehicles, and environments feel physically real rather than just computer generated.
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2) Visual effects alter images or add moving elements that can't be done in live action, like matte paintings used historically or modern CGI. Blue/green screens allow characters/objects to be placed in different backgrounds.
3) CGI uses computer software to generate digital visual effects and animation, improving over time. Early films like Tron combined live action with 3D animation, while Toy Story was the first fully CGI animated feature film.
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- Types of cutscenes include live-action, pre-rendered CGI or animations, and real-time rendered using the game engine. Mixed media cutscenes combine techniques.
- Cutaways interrupt scenes
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1. Creed II VFX Breakdown
Today in this blog we will talk about the use of VFX in the American sports
drama film Creed II directed by Steven Caple Jr.
Hollywood’s action packed movies are all time favourite to the audience all
over the world.
Creed II is scripted by popular Hollywood action hero Sylvester Stallone
along with Juel Taylor.
Creed II is the continuation of the previous Creed made in 2015.
It is the eighth part of the Rocky film series.
Creed II has stars like Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa
Thompson, Dolph Lundgren etc.
Creed II is about Adonis Creed who returns to the boxing ring to take
revenge of his father’s death.
2. VFX Treatment Of Creed II
Creed II featured Michael B. Jordan in the lead role as a talented boxer
Adonis Creed and the son of world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed.
Adonis Creed’s trainer and mentor Sylvester Stallone prepares Adonis to
fight against Viktor Drago a powerful athlete whose father Ivan Drago
killed Adonis father in the ring 33 years back.
The 72 year old actor Sylvester Stallone’s return as Rocky Balboa into this
movie is an exciting and interesting part for the fans of Stallone.
MGM or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced this film which released in
November 2018.
The VFX to this film has been provided by MR.X and Zero VFX companies.
MR.X, USA based VFX company provided total 311 VFX shots for Creed II.
As Studio MR.X has a long relationship with MGM; MR.X handled most of
the VFX of the intense boxing matches.
Creed II’s storyline follows the boxing matches between Adonis Creed and
Viktor.
3. MR.X worked on CGI crowd duplication, they used 600 extras which looked
like 80,000 boxing fans with the crowd simulation.
While the extras cheered up the stadium, CGI technique filled the stadium
by multiplying the crowd.
Crowd duplication allowed flexibility with the framing by maintaining a
steady look as the style changed at every round of the game.
Green Screen AT The Background
As we all know that Chroma keying technique helps to add desired
background later at the post-production stages.
Green Screen VFX tool was used in the stadium scenes to add the CGI
background of multiple crowds.
VFX team removed the Green Screen at the post production stage and
extended the stadium and inserted the crowds at different places of the
stadium with the help of CGI.
VFX artists created the CGI crowd which were used at the back of the
stadium where as the real crowd were used at the front of the stadium.
Under the guidance of VFX Supervisor Eric Robinson, Jo Hughes and Dean
Wright, Creed II got its stunning visual effects.
4. VFX artist Crystal Dowd of Crafty Apes VFX Company also contributed in
the process.
The film was shot at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and some scenes were
filmed at Grey Towers Castle.
The final training montage of Adonis was shot in the desert of Deming, New
Mexico.
Production team created outdoor set with heavy tyres, chains and water
tanks.
Kramer Morgenthau captured best action shots for the film.
The Close-Ups and the Mid Shot of the boxers and their actions were
captured in a thrilling way.
As a Cinematographer, Kramer Morgenthau shot the punches from many
angles to highlight the dramatic part.
Crowd Simulation Visual Effects
Fighting scenes were shot in the fake boxing rings with Michael B. Jordan
and Sylvester Stallone.
Stunning CG Stadium was crafted by Zero VFX Company.
5. VFX Supervisor Eric Robinson was on set to arrange all the key fight
sequences.
VFX team worked till the last day of post –production to handle every
details of the film.
As Eric Robinsonsaid in his interview that: “Boxing sequences are crafted to
deliver fun, unique challenges.”
MR.X Company in Toronto and Bangalore delivered their best efforts in
making of this film.
VFX On Connecting Boxing Punches
Team worked on the punch shots, with the help of VFX they made the
boxing punch shot and the face more believable.
Facial expressions got the touch of the texture and colour through visual
effects.
Actor’s spit and the sweat were highlighted with visual effects.
Before the shot actor took mouthful of water and then let the water loose
during the shooting and in between to correct the flow of water VFX team
added the specific tone to the water to make it visually prominent.
6. In fact artists did the colour grading and correction to the water droplets to
make it look like blood for more impactful scene.
Another challenge was to keep the boxing match fresh and energetic as it
had nine rounds.
The director planned new style for each round, so as to avoid
repetitiveness.
It kept the audience in suspense as the fight occurred.
It was thrilling to watch Michael B. Jordan getting in to shape for the
fighting scenes.
The director made the audience to feel every blow of the boxing punches
through the visual treatments.
Director Steven Caple Jr. confessed that he watched many Karate films
before making this film to learn the tension building methods and
excitement in the boxing scenes.
He further said “Small moments in the film are important and they don’t
have to do anything with the budget. Those moments are independent film
in its own way”.
3D Lighting For The Stadium
7. Extra3d lighting was added with the help of visual effects surrounding the
boxing rings.
3D software provided the Spot lights all around the boxing ring stage.
Zero VFX contributed in providing well-illuminated boxing ring surrounds.
Zero’s team of artists created ground-breaking illusions which served story.
Zero VFX team put life into the fighting scenes.
This film made a huge success due the great collaboration of the all team
members.
VFX artists from different part of the world shared their expertise and
knowledge to make Creed II best version of the film.
This film is all about honour and identity, power and heroism.
Creed II made a profit of over $213 million and received positive reviews
from the critics worldwide.
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