(The editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for the “Together. “)
Today, the Internet is full of face-merger apps as the ability to mix photos of two different people has become even more common with the increase in artificial intelligence.
And it is understandable that some audience members can think of these consumer apps when they see the last shot of the body’s horror ”Together“As Millie (Alison Brie) and Tim (Dave Franco) Finally, one, but “Tillie” (“Together” team’s nickname for the Brie/Franco fusion) was much more carefully considered and skilfully executed.
“The amount of views I have gone to now, and people come to me and say,“ Was it AI at the end?’ It’s just so crazy that people assume that AI is the cause now. We have absolutely used none of it on this film“Said author/director Michael Shanks when he was a guest on this week’s episode of Filmmaker tolkit podcast. “As a VFX guy, like someone who has worked with all these teams that put so much work, it is so frustrating now that people look at something that looks interesting or good, and they (assume) just a computer did. It’s like,” No, no, no, no, no. ”
While VFX power plants Frame Built the heavy CGI for the climatic hall scene in Married (on- and off-screen) pairsBodies are drawn into each other, and the film’s previous brushes with cooperation Relying mainly on the practical work with prosthesis designer Larry van Duynhoven, the last “Tillie” shot was the product of makeup and cautious old school composition by VFX supervisor Genevieve Camillery.
“It’s not”The subject‘We won’t get a Crazy monster Opens the door. It must be an ordinary person you would pass by the street and not notice, ”Shanks said.
Camilleri’s challenge was significant, which meant that someone who could pass like just another small city citizen living their life, but also be someone that the audience immediately recognized as a merger of Brie and Franco.
“In pre -production, the gene just went up and took pictures of Dave and Alison and then in Nuke she made a bunch of variations on what elements to take from which of their faces, to find out what is important to see them both in the final picture,” Shanks said.
The baseline’s starting point would shoot Brie with a wig. The makeup team recreated Franco’s eyebrows and put them on Brary’s actual face. Tillie also has bries natural eyes, but with brown contacts to match Franco’s eye color.
“After we shot the stage with Alison, we moved in Dave, with a bunch of dots on his face,” Shanks said. “Gen has taken the jaw and lips and stuck to the bottom (off the face). It really is a combination of makeup and you would not call it CGI, because nothing is computer generated, but it is composite.”
A neon edition, “Together” is now in theaters.
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