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'Wicked' VFX: Turning Chistery Into a Flying Monkey
IndieWireStory by Bill Desowitz
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ILM's VFX maestro Pablo Helman shares the grueling process of turning actors into flying monkeys for the 'Wicked' movie adaptation.
beat sheet
- 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'.
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Pablo Helman, ILM, 'Wicked'