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Plastic Surgery With a Mouse Click

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Recently, after shooting three episodes of the WGN America drama Salem, an actor in a prominent role left the show for personal reasons. A few years ago, such a major switch would have been a costly debacle requiring expensive reshoots. But “we didn’t have to reshoot at all,” says veteran showrunner Brannon Braga. “We’re replacing his face with a new actor’s face.”
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In the early days of CG, Pixar made toys that talked. Now the new toys are often people: Most fans don’t have any idea when filmmakers are shaving years and pounds off their favorite actors, replacing them entirely with digital doubles, or even digitally reanimating their faces: adding a tear where none existed, a look of rage instead of fear.
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http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/special-effects-c-v-r.html?mid=twitter-share-vulture

I thought this was a really interesting article about how far visual effects impact productions at every level.

How far are we really away from say Harrison Ford being able to do a Blade Runner sequel that is few years after the original simply because they can convincingly deage him.
 
You know, it's all fun and games until a creepy guy in shades shows up at your door. :lol:

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Very interesting article, thanks for sharing it. I think we all know in the back of our minds that digital effects play a bigger role than we know, but I still found some of this information surprising. I guess I shouldn't, Hollywood's goal has never been realism, but I guess I wasn't aware that technology has improved to the point of basically being able to change an actor's entire performance without anyone noticing.
 
Hollywood's goal has never been realism but at its best it has nuanced emotional performances. The risk of using technology to change the actors' portrayal of emotion is that it will make things even more homogenized and less nuanced.
 
Spot's Meow said:
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing it. I think we all know in the back of our minds that digital effects play a bigger role than we know, but I still found some of this information surprising. I guess I shouldn't, Hollywood's goal has never been realism, but I guess I wasn't aware that technology has improved to the point of basically being able to change an actor's entire performance without anyone noticing.
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Yes - I was surprised for example, that they literally stretch the actors to make them look thinner...
 
Look at Ant Man. There were only maybe 1 or 2 shots where that was not a convincingly de-aged Michael Douglas in the cold open. I wish they had gone that route with Tron Legacy instead of the all CGI route.
 
Yeah it's common for actors in movies to be touched up more. Look at pee-wee herman Paul Reuben

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EnderAKH said:
Look at Ant Man. There were only maybe 1 or 2 shots where that was not a convincingly de-aged Michael Douglas in the cold open. I wish they had gone that route with Tron Legacy instead of the all CGI route.
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There's no way that wasn't a CG de-aged Michael Douglas in that scene. Absolutely no way.

The technology's just improved since Legacy, that's all.
 
BeatleJWOL said:
There's no way that wasn't a CG de-aged Michael Douglas in that scene. Absolutely no way.

The technology's just improved since Legacy, that's all.
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Oh it was, but using actual on-set Michael Douglas, and then they just digitally de-aged him. In Tron Legacy, they just tried to do the younger Jeff Bridges as entirely CGI instead of starting with the actual Jeff Bridges peforming the part and de-aging him. It was decidedly less convincing.
 
EnderAKH said:
In Tron Legacy, they just tried to do the younger Jeff Bridges as entirely CGI instead of starting with the actual Jeff Bridges peforming the part and de-aging him. It was decidedly less convincing.
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Oh right, that was just motioncapture and face modeling.

I dunno, it's not too bad in the Tron world but I do seem to remember the opening scene in the real world was not as nice at all :p
 
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