Techniques To Create The Chaarachters In The Movie Warcraft

This article explains how Industrial light and majic had to develop new tools and techniques to create the charachters in the movie Warcraft. They first talk about how it was challenging to create these orcs specifically becsaue they where these huge creatures that had and Iconic image to them. They knew that these charachters would sell people on the movie so they had to get them right. advances in motion capture allowed them to get the motion right but the had to follow through with the look of them. THe biggest challenge they faced weas in the skin. The skin needed to look as close to photo realistic as they could get to make the charachters belivable. The technology they used to create this is called sub surface scattering. This causes the effect of the skin beight slightly translucent meaning some of the light shines through. This caused the orcs to feel alive and futher add to that belivablilty factor. sssss …show more content…
They are so vital to creating exactly what we want in our art. It is often overlooked as something technological and not artistic, but It is still important though. If you are unable to present you charachter or scene in an interesting way then it makes your model look flat and boring. Materials sell you on an object and as the article states, it was very important that they got the them right. So they should not be overlooked as the technical side of CGI but as an important step in the creation process. sssss
They talk alot about theyer motion capture they used foir this movie, and that is becasue they made serious inovations to the process. ILM says in this article that they took their indoor soundstage and turned it into a motion capture studio aswell. This allowed the actors to give their vocal performance while doing the action that would be translated to the onscreen character. This advancement gave the characters more belivable performances.