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“Fantasy Forest”, the most worth mentioning is the special effects of the movie,
special visual effects and The lifelike animals are amazing.
In fact, except for the little boy Mowgli, who is played by the young Indian actor Neil Sethi,
all the other scenes and characters seen are synthesized by CG animation in the later stage.
The story tells the story of the forest adventures and growth of Mowgli, a human boy raised by wolves.
The producer said, "Mr. Walt Disney told this story through traditional animation, and now we have advanced enough technology to bring these characters to life and bring a real child to life. Put it into the environment created by computer special effects without any flaws. To re-express this story with modern technology, no one will want to miss such an opportunity."
The most worth mentioning of "Fantasy Forest" is the special effects of the film, which needs to be explained. The thing is, except for the little boy Mowgli, who is played by the Indian-born actor Neel Sethi, all the scenes and characters seen in the other films are synthesized by CG animation in the later stage.
Elephants, orangutans, tigers, brown bears, pythons, antelopes, porcupines, jerboa, dozens of animals, not only from the texture of the hair to the running posture are vivid, but also with the human expression and mouth shape to cooperate with the little boy to stage a wonderful performance "Literature".
Not only animals, but also all the trees, grass, rivers, and hills in the film are the products of post-processing computer effects.
"Because these animal characters are anthropomorphic and need to speak their lines, it is very difficult to shoot with real animals. Since we chose to use special effects as animals, the mixing of special effects and real scenes will reduce the sense of realism, so even the whole scene is completely It’s all done with special effects,” says director Jon Favreau.
This kind of shooting was not easy. The director recalled that when he was facing the only actor, Neel Sethi, he always played the role of a bear, a she-wolf, and a monkey and a young actor.
The Hollywood union has very strict regulations on the use of child actors, "A child can't climb more than 1 meter, but we need him to look on a very high tree top, which also requires a lot of energy to do in the later stage. "
In addition, the difficulty of different animals is not the same." Primates are very easy to do, because the technology of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is very mature and can be easily transplanted, but it is very difficult for snakes, because No one has ever done it in the past, including its muscle movement trajectory and facial expressions, we have to re-study it.
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