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posted by janrinok on Thursday March 09 2017, @04:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the Oscar-goes-to-someone-who-doesn't-exist dept.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/cg-actors-logan-never-knew-149013.html

A long article going into great detail about how they staged, shot & digitally manipulated scenes in the movie Logan replacing the faces on stuntmen with the respective actor. When I watched the movie, I knew that X-24 had been de-aged and touched up a bit, but I never noticed any of the other scenes, in particular the Limo scene they describe in the article that was heavily modified.

While Hollywood has been relying on digital doubles for many years, the work in Logan is particularly seamless, even if the scenes are relatively brief and do not involve an avatar delivering any dialogue. It's perhaps another example of where things are headed with digital actors and how they can be used to help tell the stories directors are wanting to tell. Cartoon Brew sat down with the studio behind the digital Hugh Jackmans and Laura, Image Engine in Vancouver, who worked under overall vfx supervisor Chas Jarrett, to discuss how the the cg 'digi-doubles' were brought to life.

After being given the task of re-creating cg heads for Keen and Jackman, Image Engine's team immediately knew what it was up for. "Everyone knows Logan, for instance, and that's the biggest challenge," Image Engine visual effects supervisor Martyn Culpitt told Cartoon Brew. "We're literally looking at a real Hugh and a digital Hugh side by side in some shots."

The studio had completed plenty of digital human-type work before, but mostly as either human-esque creatures or as cg stunt doubles – never full-frame actors intended to be indistinguishable from the real actor. That meant Image Engine had to ramp up on their digital human pipeline, while also capitalizing on work they'd previously done in the area. "We basically had to build the whole system from scratch," said Culpitt.

Of particular note, their lighting software is open source.


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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by janrinok on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:42AM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:42AM (#476912) Journal

    Not sure why you bothered to answer in your own question thus, with a separation of 8 minutes:

    The post title is gibberish. Jan, do your job,

    He can't. He's not fluent in English and its idioms.

    However, to refute your last quote, I am British born and bred, qualified at degree level, and have been speaking English for far longer than you have been alive, I'll bet. I also speak 4 other languages at a passable level but I am now getting a little rusty with the lack of practice. I'll further guess that if I had written "Digital Face Swaps Almost Indistinguishable From Real Thing" you would have understood it perfectly, but you would have no context for the summary. So the title includes the film name Logan. If it is the film title that has thrown you then perhaps you ought to get out a bit more and pay attention to what is happening in the world around you. Or simply read the summary which I believe explains it fully in the first sentence:

    A long article going into great detail about how they staged, shot & digitally manipulated scenes in the movie Logan replacing the faces on stuntmen with the respective actor.

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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:41PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:41PM (#477028) Homepage

    The only real problem is that the meaning of "Logan" isn't clear from context.

    Not having to use title case would have helped with that, since at least it would have been clear it was a proper noun...

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