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A lthough we loved the way Robert Zemeckis pushed the technology of motion capture (mocap) in films like The Polar Express and Beowulf , we had to excuse him for the the vacant and sickly faces of those who had been captured. Behind the great narrative of the films, we found the CGI characters unnerving and deserving inhabitants of what has become known as the ‘uncanny valley’. The subconscious human reaction is to see these computer-generated creatures as disconcerting and, naturally, avoid them. We don’t relate to them in quite the normal way. This means what VFX supervisor Kevin Baillie and his team have achieved in Welcome to Marwen is quite significant and sets the precedent for the future mocap of human faces. Producers of sci-fi, fantasy movies and (potentially) TV drama now have a choice when creating a digital human – Method Studios has already done the groundwork. Welcome to Marwen ’s DOP C. KimMiles and Kevin are now firm friends, managing to meet somewhere in the middle of traditional cinematography language and Unreal Engine code.
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