Guardians of the galaxy is an American superhero film released in 2014. It is produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film is directed by James Gunn, who wrote the screenplay with Nicole Periman. The main casts in this film who starred as the superheros are Chris Pratt as Star Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon and Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer.
The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing $774.2 million worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing superhero film of 2014. It was also the second highest-grossing film in North America of 2014. The film has gotten praise for its humor, soundtrack, visual effects, Gunn's direction and performance of the cast.
In this film, The main challenge was to make Groot and Rocket as real as possible and not look fake and out of place.
Therefore, i will be focusing on how they made Groot and Rocket so real even though …show more content…
For rocket's hair, instead of mapping out his entire coat of fur with only a few sections of hair, Framestore made it even more realistic by stimulating every single hair on rocket's body and how they interacted with other hairs. They had his distinctive raccoon-pattern markings by changing the color maps on individual hairs and used a mixing effect to create the speckled look on some hair. They separated the short fine hair from the layer of longer hairs to only stimulate the longer hairs. Thus, they were able to stimulate the full hair count of the longer hairs instead of using a low density set of guide hairs to drive the rest of the hair. The simulations were therefore very accurate. The fur was also separated into sections. This meant that they could easily remove parts of the fur which were not visible in shot. In total, it comprised of 22 hair