Behind the Magic | The Creator | Simulants & Robots

See the special visual effects that went in to bringing the simulants and robots to life in Gareth Edwards’ #TheCreator. For Your Consideration. #FYC

[@enchihouse]

The 3 Magicians, Tracking team, Roto team, Compositors......they make the magic

[@anurandev7337]

and Paint Prep too

[@Mushubeans]

​​@@anurandev7337 what does paint prep mean? I work in games so I have an intermediate understanding of film VFX, but never heard of paint prep.. is it stabilization and tracking?

[@hylgariss]

and Lighting Team

[@S9universe]

I love how the practical filming is enhanced by the cgi and the cgi is enhanced by the practical. Taking what's the best in both worlds.

[@sparkside217]

Yeah you can really feel it too, 10+ years after District 9 and this approach still beats out nearly every shortcut we've seen since in Marvel movies and the like

[@S9universe]

@@sparkside217 no uncanny valley here

[@richardconway6425]

Yeah, S9, good observation. So the skill is in combining them seamlessly, right?

[@S9universe]

​​@@richardconway6425 the fact the faces of humans do not look heavily cgi-ed really inspired me, all cinema is about magic, and yeah they did it seamlessly 😌

[@TiagoNugentComposer]

Thanks to all the match movers who tracked the heads! looks phenomenal!

[@orangepuffs6796]

how does one move matches

[@amitposthair]

I'm a match mover and I approve this message

[@JakeVermont19]

​@@amitposthair then maybe you can answer my question. How do you track the heads without markers? It looks perfect! I mean you are using the practical face and combine it with the back of the CG head, right? How do you align them this perfectly?

[@amitposthair]

@@JakeVermont19 with alot of time and patience lol. Usually very high res models of the actors faces are provided and we align up frame by frame. What helps is creating curve lines on the model faces in Maya (the software we use), to help act as a marker guide for us to be able to make sure it sticks to that particular geometry against the plate

[@richardconway6425]

@@amitposthair sorry to ask, but what exactly do you mean by "the plate"?

[@amitposthair]

As someone who has been in matchmove for 11 years, the tracking on the heads of these shots were phenomenal. Amazing work all around!

[@alexanderleutloff1719]

Not once during the film did I ever think about the half mechanical heads The Effects were that phenomenal

[@hylgariss]

Big compliment ! It was a fine balance between seeing them but not having them stand out too much :)

[@pixelpusher91]

You guys at ILM did a marvelous job. The design, the level of CG integration is out of this world! A good VFX is either invisible or serves the story and in this case you hit all the right spots. I really do hope the producers/directors/marketing folks will recognize this and they'll end this "we did everything for real" nonsense. Congratulations to everyone involved!

[@Touchgrassplz]

shout out to compositors for this!

[@peterpain6625]

For sure.

[@orlando.l5135]

Please release more behind the scenes like this, this is amazing

[@rano12321]

The tracking, matchmove and the roto team deserves a weeklong holiday in the Bahamas with every food they could ask for after this movie.

[@ShutterAuthority]

Fascinating filmmaking and VFX approach!

[@reeanimationgaming1034]

you are the one who invented Siren head... Right? 😀 Been subscribed for many years now...

[@AleksandrMotsjonov]

Pure Hard hard work (which is indistinguishable from magic)

[@KillerTacos54]

Fax

[@00Mindi00]

This film was BRILLIANT. Great work ILM, great work GARETH EDWARDS!

[@miguelteixeira2250]

Congratiolations to all the artists that worked on this beautiful movie! All your hardwork is appreciated! Thank you!

[@zongmuas]

I don't know how I thought they did the effects, but this wasn't it. Just... amazing. BRAVO VFX team.

[@deepelements]

You guys have mastered this ART of illusion. Thank you for inspiring us little artist for so many years ILM

[@kevinjohnson323]

Industry changing effects! 🙌🏾

[@ilikeithardcoretv3367]

been waiting on something like this, a lot of face tracking and clean plates.. amazing work

[@batata_fx]

Amazing work! One of the best VFX i have seen.

[@mr.smile7779]

Out of world work in ILM👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@peaceloveforever88]

GREAT JOB ILM team

[@matchdance]

The rotomation!

[@majitek7975]

D-D-D-Directooooors cuuuuuuuuttttt!!!!

[@Random-xd4zm]

Beautiful 🤌

[@Masters-of-Sound]

Love the work you guys do!

[@TheMovieRabbitHole]

Great work! Thank you

[@IanLetarte]

Brilliant!

[@adventurekitty101]

Amazing job guys!

[@FerdIsaacs]

dope!

[@judasdeathcamilo]

increible trabajo

[@J0Nramirez]

Mind blowing.

[@filmmakersworld]

So cool 😍😍😍

[@thebogzilla]

Amazing work!

[@KillerTacos54]

Incredible

[@oshea_entertainment]

I love your work

[@Jihwan_vfx]

amazing

[@peaceloveforever88]

ILM = the BEST

[@wujohn1209]

Wow ,how remove the front image and keep the background image ,amazing.

[@bhartipandit6219]

This is VFX black magic

[@UriCarrasco]

and the oscar goes to...

[@rano12321]

00:54 wakanda blackmagic is this?

[@ricardoflak]

cuiero aserlo eso

[@JakeVermont19]

How do they do the tracking of the heads when there are no markers?

[@davidtadic4716]

I dind't think much about it but everything is handcrafted. On some scenes feels that noise too harsh after looking the Mandalorian. Hope that somebody can afford Burano 😅. But at the same time I kind of like the white noise. It encoureges others artists what that the can do with their tools.

[@Nardril]

Interesting that the actors don't seem to be wearing any trackers. I guess this is a new technique?

[@amerfilmstudios9292]

CREATES

[@ZardozXerxes]

Great FX shame about the movie.