Behind the VFX of 'The Creator'

Behind the VFX of 'The Creator' - befores & afters

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'The Creator' director Gareth Edwards and Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor Jay Cooper talk to Ian Failes from befores & afters. We discuss the VFX tests (including which ones made it into the final film), deciding which actors would become robots after shooting, crafting simulants, shooting with the virtual camera, and filming on ILM's StageCraft LED stage.
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0:00 Video begins
1:18 Gareth notices Godzilla behind me
2:18 Doing VFX (and filmmaking) differently
9:14 Choosing a human to be a robot
13:57 Bald actors the new gray/mirror balls
17:38 The VFX tests
22:42 The tests that made the final film
24:30 How to make a simulant
32:45 Stilt houses
38:03 NOMAD scanner from Gareth’s A51 visit
42:28 Virtual camera shoot
45:10 Using StageCraft
55:58 Wrap-up
Find more VFX content at befores & afters: beforesandafters.com/

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@ILMVFX 3 ай бұрын

It was so much fun helping to bring Gareth’s vision to life. Thanks for having us, Ian!

@AleksandrMotsjonov 3 ай бұрын

You are amazing, guys. Everyone.

@AllThingsFilm1 3 ай бұрын

You guys did amazing seamless work for "The Creator". Jaw dropping in fact.

@none53 3 ай бұрын

It s my dream to be there at ILM

@digitaldevigner4080 3 ай бұрын

What an amazing discussion. So nice to see Jay Cooper. He was my compositing instructor at the Academy of Art College many years ago. I think that was back in 2001 or 2002. One of the most inspiring classes I have ever had and to this day has had a major impact on how I view images. My life went down a software development path but VFX will always be a long lost love of mine.

@adin.family 3 ай бұрын

thank you so much for giving everyone the opportunity to touch this process!

@SHKAAL887 3 ай бұрын

This was a great show to be a part of, congrats to the whole ILM team and all the other vendors

@DaveDFX 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the interview and insights! The Creator is a great movie! Rogue One too! The best scenes were the animals blowing stuff up :)

@glynwilliams4204 3 ай бұрын

Gareth started this journey with Monsters (and Genghis!) - I love how it ends up looking on the screen. For me it is more convincing than the imagery we see in (say) Avatar - because it is more grounded in physical reality.

@giacomomineo73 3 ай бұрын

Great episode! Thnaks guys.

@lobsterthieved 3 ай бұрын

holy shit an HOUR LONG??? i am so hype

@pavelpekun5424 3 ай бұрын

What a talk, thanks for that!

@mitrius99 3 ай бұрын

Just a great movie and interview. Dang. Thx for this.

@Joshua_S 3 ай бұрын

Can Gareth and Ian Hubert make a movie together pleeease?

@samuelenslin1850 3 ай бұрын

Ah man, I loved this movie as a movie geek, but I also loved this movie as a 3D Artist. Its not just the amazing integration of everything, the great footage that everything is based on that makes the whole thing look realy grounded and "real", its also just in general that everything looks a bit more special than the generic scifi stuff we´re used to. I mean, I love bladerunner, but does EVERY scifi city have to look like that? I also love the new denis villeneuve adaptations of dune, but they somewhat left me emotionally untouched, compared to the creator. Not sure if its more the acting, the script/story or the fact that even though everything in the creator looks amazing in terms of cinematography, it doesn´t look like EVERYTHING is just serving that part, as its the case with villeneuve stuff. I was kind of hoping towards the end, after he escaped with the kid, that they would just disappear into the crowd with a hint at a sequel...:)

@samuelenslin1850 3 ай бұрын

Also, just to add onto that: I also love how its really made for the audience. Not in a pandering way and not trying to invalidate anyone doing it differently, of course you can´t make EVERY movie this way: But the fact that you accomplished this WITHOUT the huge movie builds and massive greenscreen studios and all the stuff that pleases producers and supervisors and looks good in making ofs...its really magical...:) Seeing all the hate that CGI gets sometimes (vs "practical filmmaking") that even makes big studios release MoFs where they CGI remove the greenscreens just to pander to these people...this is so much more authentic to the art of "faking it" to make movie magic: Not completely relying on "fixing it in post", but also then working with certain restrictions in a creative way.... Hope we get to see more stuff from you guys, amazing collaboration!

@ahmednna201177 3 ай бұрын

Saved, pretty sure this is great epidsode, ty

@mickmack9645 3 ай бұрын

We extended our Disney subscription just to see this film. And visually the movie was very beautiful, but the story was a big disappointment and in long stretches made no sense. Robot monks were not even the most ridiculous ideas in it...

@orcanimal 3 ай бұрын

The movie sure looks great! Now if only the script wasn't absolute shit... Every bad original IP movie makes it harder for more original IP stuff to get made. So by neglecting the script, they've fucked us all