“We did a couple of shots where we push right in on his eyes. It terms of around the eyes and brows we ended up agreeing with Marvel that Thanos needed to look like Thanos.” A high-resolution model needed to be produced that included skin pores and stubble. “Some changes were made particularly around the mouth where we brought some of the details of Josh’s face shape into Thanos. Tests were conducted and review in regards to incorporating facial features of Josh Brolin into Thanos. There’s a big range of different emotions that he has to go through on planet Titan so the nuances of that performance were important.” Once we have a good digital copy of the performance then we can calibrate our digital Thanos. This allows us to clearly tell if we’re getting all of the subtleties of performance onto the digital puppet because we’re comparing it to the actual Josh. Now there’s an intermediary stage where we are tracking or solving the motion capture onto a digital copy of Josh Brolin. “We would then track the motion capture onto the Thanos puppet. “In the past we would have our reference performance, footage, and motion capture of Josh Brolin performing Thanos and would have our digital Thanos puppet,” he explains. One of the new things put into place was the introduction of “this concept of the actor on-set,” according to Aitken. A team at Weta Digital had just finished War for the Planet of the Apes so we took all of that learning, technology and skillset that was applied to Caesar and worked it into Thanos with a couple of new approaches added into the mix.” We brought all of our experience to bear. “We knew that if he didn’t work then the movie was going to fail. “We developed Thanos in parallel with Digital Domain,” Weta Digital VFX supervisor Matt Aitken recounts. When filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo ( Captain America: Civil War) decided to make Thanos the driving narrative force of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios visual effects supervisor Dan DeLeeuw hired Weta Digital and Digital Domain to transform the motion capture performance of Josh Brolin into a believable and imposing CG adversary. Whatever the case, at least Tom Holland's dance looks better than whatever moves Tobey Maguire's "edgy" Peter Parker was showing off in Spider-Man 3.‘Avengers: Infinity War’ © 2018 Marvel Studios. Then again, since there will be a homecoming dance in the movie (otherwise the title would lose some of its meaning), maybe that will provide the best opportunity for Peter to cut loose in front of his high school classmates. He also probably wouldn't want to draw too much attention to himself, or else there would be a higher risk of someone finding out he's Spider-Man. Oh sure, Peter Parker's abilities make dancing like that a piece of cake, but Peter is also shyer and more reserved when he's not wearing the mask. Of course, this video is just another example of how agile Tom Holland is, and it's doubtful that we'll see a scene of Peter breakdancing in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Hell, why limit this to just the Wall-Crawler and Mad Titan? Bring in other Marvel folks to contribute to the dance-off! Watts also humorously asked Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo if big bad Thanos can "do this." If the Russos can somehow get a stunt double to break dance so that a digital Thanos can pull off those same moves, I will be eternally grateful. Seeing Holland demonstrate his moves is already impressive, but it's even cooler to see the digital Spider-Man on the monitor nearby replicating the same dance while Daft Punk's "Doin' it Right" plays. Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts posted this video on Instagram of Tom Holland breakdancing while wearing a motion-capture suit.
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