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July 24, 2013: VFX Supervisors Discuss Working on "Man of Steel"

Man of Steel Visual effects supervisors John 'DJ' DesJardin, Guillaume Rocheron, Dan Lemmon, Chad Wiebe and Max Ivins spoke with FlickeringMyth.com about their work on "Man of Steel" and the challenges of bringing Superman back to the big screen. Here's an excerpt from the lengthy article...

    "I had previously worked with production designer Alex McDowell [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory] before on Watchmen," states John DesJardin. "Alex, Zack and I would talk about what sets we had the resources to build practically and what was going to end up as either a completely CG environment or CG set extension. Defining the action with Zack and Damon quickly revealed what needed to be practical sets or locations versus what needed to be green screen. Krypton was mostly a green screen set because we had to build the whole world. However, Smallville was a location that we wanted to keep the integrity of so that became another visual effects problem for me because I knew that we were going to have to do a lot of CG takeovers not just of characters but of the location itself. The destruction of Metropolis was a hybrid solution, combining location work for the first part where we needed people in the real environment running away from something terrible happening in the distance with green screen for the second part, where everything surrounding our camera was irreparably destroyed, therefore totally CG. And of course, when we got to the final Superman versus Zod scene where our main characters were fighting and flying through a world where a good deal of the city had been torn away, we combined green screen work with all-CG animation and simulation."

Read the entire article at the Flickering Myth website.


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