Special effects firm Digital Domain used detailed scans to allow actor Josh Brolin to drive the character Thanos’s facial expressions in “Avengers: Infinity War.”
The news: Instead of projecting the character’s image onto the actor after the performance was complete, Brolin became one on set. “On his first day on set he was able to see how his performance would transfer onto the character,” Digital Domain’s head of digital humans, Darren Hendler, told MIT Technology Review. “He didn’t have to wait months or years to see how it would convert onto the live screen.”
How it was done: The firm took precise measurements of how Brolin’s face moves, all the way down to tracking how his skin slides over his musculature. That was then used to build Thanos’s face.
What’s next? Handler says they haven’t gone so far as taking MRIs or X-rays of actors yet, but with how far they are going right now, the key word there is “yet.”
The news: Instead of projecting the character’s image onto the actor after the performance was complete, Brolin became one on set. “On his first day on set he was able to see how his performance would transfer onto the character,” Digital Domain’s head of digital humans, Darren Hendler, told MIT Technology Review. “He didn’t have to wait months or years to see how it would convert onto the live screen.”
How it was done: The firm took precise measurements of how Brolin’s face moves, all the way down to tracking how his skin slides over his musculature. That was then used to build Thanos’s face.
What’s next? Handler says they haven’t gone so far as taking MRIs or X-rays of actors yet, but with how far they are going right now, the key word there is “yet.”
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