'Wicked' VFX: Turning Chistery Into a Flying Monkey

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• Helman and his team devoted over 12 months to perfecting Chistery's painful on-screen transformation, leveraging cutting-edge motion capture and CG techniques.
• The VFX crew worked closely with the actors to ensure the monkey movements and behaviors felt authentic, with Helman noting 'it was crucial to capture that balance of human and animal'.