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for me, getting on board with the matrix was huge. i think a lot of people in this industry will probably have had the matrix affect them in different ways. there was a huge expectation on the movie s shoulders, but also on vfx, obviously we re revisiting a world that had been created 20 years ago, so we knew these assets were alive somewhere, we just had to try and track them down and find them. and it wasn t, sadly, the case that they all just live in a nice hard drive and we canjust ask warner brothers, hey, can we have the assets? , and they send them to us. lots of e mail threads, different people, old companies looking through their backups and finding whatever they can. we eventually managed to restore, i think, a sentinel, a harvester and a foetus egg stalk. we found all the files but then we were like, how do we open it? none of the modern 3d packages will open these files. we found an old version of the file that we could open it, export it in a different way and be able to
a believable city that you could feel people have lived there for a while and they have figured out how to irrigation channels, farming, dwellings, we tried to block out these different areas that you could buy as real, and then populate it with little people, little chimney stacks, atmospherics, it was set in a huge cabin so we want to make sure we have a sense of scale. our vfx work will always be better if we are building off the back of something real, or if we have something real to reference before we build out the effects. it will always look better, you can create whatever you like, you can create wonderful environments, as much imagination as you like, but as soon as you start putting something real into it you just need something to ground it. and i think if you do a partial set build of exactly the kind of idea that you want, you want to light your characters in a certain way, the background behaves a certain way behind them, so once you have got something captured on came
the same with the foetus fields and foetus eggs, again we kept the overall design, we kept the foetus baby exactly the same, we just extended the stalks and added more detail, more cables. that fit in with the story in this case because this is 60 years, time has passed, and the machines have sort of evolved their harvesting methods to draw more power so we have the cable. io city is sort of the new zion of this movie, like the expanded city. that was one of our biggest builds. we had to break it down into lot of small sections, we wanted to try and create a believable city that you could feel people have lived there for a while and they have figured out how to irrigation channels, farming, dwellings, we tried to block out these different areas that you could buy as real, and then populate it with little people, little chimney stacks, atmospherics, it was set in a huge cabin so we want to make sure we have a sense of scale. our vfx work will always be better if we are building off th
environment, making sure that you can adjust the lighting to match the cg lighting and vice versa, is a bit tricky at times. aside from the characters, we had to replace the entire environment. to get a rough idea of how render intensive this show was, the water especially, the shot where the dragon encases the beast and all the demons are feeding him to power him up, the water alone would have taken a single core processor 25 years to render. you can t outrun. ..who you really are. and we ll find out soon whether shang chi has moved up from the shortlists to the list of five films which are nominated for the best vfx oscar. in the meantime, that s it from us from los angeles for this week. don t forget, we live on social media on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter at @bbcclick.