With the absence of a body double, the visual effects artists looked to ’90s Jackson classics like “The Negotiator,” “Die Hard: With a Vengeance,” “Jurassic Park” and smaller films like “Sphere” and “One Eight Seven.” As VFX artists might also do with a body double, they’re looking for a model for how light reflects on his face or how his cheek might sag when he strikes a similar expression to one used in “Captain Marvel.”Ĭlaus, however, said that the challenge of working with someone who has “aged very well” like Jackson is actually a “double-edged sword.” Jackson Death Was Supposed to Be on Screen, Actor Says What has improved is their experience and knowledge of the physiology of the human body and face.Īlso Read: 'Jurassic Park': Samuel L.
But he said that it’s a “misconception” that the technology itself has changed or evolved drastically in the last 10 years. “So you have to be very strict with consistency and internal reviews and things like that to maintain that continuity.”Ĭlaus helped pioneer the de-aging process with “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and in creating the “Skinny Steve” effect in the first “Captain America” movie, in which Chris Evans was slimmed down at its start, a precursor to the technique used today. So when you’re working with hundreds of shots and dozens of artists, it would be really easy for each of these shots to go off in their own direction and every shot looking like a different person,” Trent Claus, visual effects supervisor with Lola, added.
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“You want every shot throughout the whole movie to look like Sam, and specifically to look like Sam at that age.
“It really comes down to the artistry of the person sitting there and trying to maintain as much of the original performance as possible.” “The real challenge is making it so that there’s continuity from one frame to the next so that it feels smooth, and it never feels like the face is jiggling around or moving,” Townsend said. Jackson Loves Viral Mashup of 'Pulp Fiction' and Brett Kavanaugh Imagine trying to use Photoshop to make a model look thinner or younger on a magazine cover: you paint out any wrinkles, smooth the skin, fill in pores, bring in a person’s cheeks or chin, etc., but now do that frame by frame across a two-hour movie.Īlso Read: Samuel L. “And hopefully that’s what we’ve achieved if we’ve done our job right, and that the audience never questions it and doesn’t even consider it.”ĭe-aging, or “youthening” as the VFX experts at Marvel also call it, requires repeatedly and painstakingly manipulating an individual frame of a movie to make an actor look younger. “The thing I said to the gang at the beginning is from that first shot you see of Sam, you’ll go ‘Woah! Young Sam!’ But my intention was after that, nobody thinks about it,” Townsend said. Townsend said that the goal was to always avoid the “uncanny valley” effect and to make Jackson’s youth look natural and unnoticeable. The end result in “Captain Marvel” is seamless, easily creating the illusion that Fury is far younger than the actor playing him. “One of the big gains was Lola coming back to us and saying, ‘we don’t need the body double.’ That was huge for us because it cut down our shooting time by at least half.”Īlso Read: All 55 Marvel Movies Ranked, Including 'Captain Marvel' But in a movie like this where we’ve got about 500 shots, there was no way from a production point of view we could do that,” Christopher Townsend, Marvel’s visual effects supervisor on “Captain Marvel,” told TheWrap. “That process works if you’ve got five, eight, maybe 10 shots. In making the leap between a handful to now hundreds of shots, Marvel tasked the company Lola Visual Effects to make some tests to see what Jackson could look like without the aid of a double.
Part of that process involves filming a body double that the visual effects artist can use as a reference. (“Captain America: Civil War”), the work on Jackson is the first time Marvel has done this for a co-lead actor for an entire movie.ĭe-aging is a meticulous, time-intensive process. Jackson, who is 70 years old, was made to look 25 years younger as Nick Fury for the ’90s throwback movie “Captain Marvel.” And though the studio has previously de-aged Michael Douglas (“Ant-Man” films), Kurt Russell (“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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