ILM creators who worked on "Star Wars / Awakening of Force" VFX tell the back side of the production site



The latest series "Star Wars / Force's Awakening" released on December 18th, 2015 with the expectation of the whole world, is based on the intention of director J · J · Abrams, in real life without using CG as much as possible Although it was filmed, it is also called a movie with the theme of the universe, and there are many scenes that had to be expressed using CG. The studio "Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)" owned by Lucasfilm handled VFX of "Star Wars / Awakening of Force", and the media dealing mainly with VFXFxguide / fxphdInterviewed the production staff and the reverse side of interesting shooting has been revealed.

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This is Roger Gait, who is the chief executive at ILM. He said that he hoped for post production after taking as many pictures as possible in order to make the world that does not exist in reality as close to reality as possible.


Mr. Gyette said: "As I think, VFX is very important to do the first shoot with correct lighting, post-production can also get a good start if you shoot with the correct lighting. We assembled as many sets of objects as possible and photographed them.When you have a real set you can do the right lighting and the performers can do natural acts.When you can do various places around the world I went and gathered the materials, "he told of the process from shooting to post production.


This is how the CG is made in the scene where the lambda shuttle lands.


Scene where Cairo / Len appears from Lambda class shuttle. By combining live action and CG, you can feel more realistic.


According to Mr. Gayett, technology in video technology has developed far beyond imagination, and the boundary between photography and post production is getting ruined. A very good example of this is BB - 8. The new character BB - 8 that appeared from this work seems to be adding a special effect after first making a model and scanning it. "By actually making the model, we should be able to make personality to BB - 8, and it should have had a positive influence on the performance of the actors who will be playing together," Gyett said.


Paul Cabanaf, director of animation, said, "There is no facial expression on the droid, but in the case of BB-8, by making the model for the first time, I got emotion and I was able to breathe life. To be honest, I think that BB - 8 brought all the movies, "explains BB - 8 's charm.


Regarding the animation of BB - 8, I first made a model of BB - 8 using CAD in London, divided the data by parts and performed animation work.


"I carried out the animation test of BB-8 only once, so many ideas were born there. For example, it would be fun to put the BB-8 antenna in an unstable state like shaking it with a graze I liked JJ, too, after that, at first, the movement when the BB - 8 moved was a straight line, but I guess it is better to snake a bit to the right or to the left We tried and tried quite a trial and error about how much cute BB-8 can be shown, "Mr. Cabanaf says.


For the emotional expression of BB - 8, use the movement of the head. When he was sad, he moved the head forward, when he was excited, he suddenly lowered his head to the back, or rotated quickly to the right and left to express the feelings of BB - 8. In addition, the rendering of BB - 8 is quite high, and it seems that Mr. Cabanaf can not distinguish whether it is a CG or an actual model even if it is looking now. Even if the staff who made it is not real live cameras or CGs, it will be quite difficult for the audience to notice.


Regarding BB - 8, when you see the movie released by Disney, you can understand its charm.

BB - 8 is also impressive, but the happiness of the fans of the former trilogy is the revival of Millennium Falcon. Regarding Millennium Falcon, he actually watched the miniature Millennium Falcon used for shooting episode 4, photographed the picture, and made a new Millennium Falcon based on that data over two years.


Mr. Osamu Osamu Mr. Osamu Osamu Osamu, who is responsible for environmental effects, was really moved when I saw the miniature Millennium Falcon used in the filming of Episode 4. We had a design language based on the former trilogy as the new Millennium · I wanted to reflect on the Falcon, so I began studying miniatures carefully and started with Paul Houston, who was involved in the former trilogy, how did you reach this design, what kind of thinking process of design I was able to hear a lot of stories such as whether it was feeling, etc. I also saw the original trilogy and production design of the former trilogy and introduced it to the design of the new millennium · falcon.In miniatures it is noticed even when watching a movie There was such small detail, it was really wonderful. " is.


The big challenge with VFX was "to drag it into the movie world without noticing that it is CG to the viewer", and in this work, 2100 VFX scenes were produced, and this is a movie as one It is said that it will be a tremendous amount.


The CG of the star killer base where the whole planet has been created as a platform of weapons is finished.


The legendary female pirate Mazukanata showed a rich expression made by motion-capturing actress Rupita Nyongo.


It seems that the software uses Face Shift and adds the unique technology of ILM there, with Nyongogo acting as an actual set and playing CG based on it.



In the movie, it will be interesting to see "Star Wars / Force's Awakening" after watching people who are interested because the story of the scene where the X wing fly around the lake comes out besides the above.

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