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an actor couldn’t be there, so there was split screening on occasion.” The spread of Covid-19 wasn’t the biggest challenge facing Melchiorre and his team. “I’d say it was the volume of work and getting it to the level we needed within the timeframe – and on a slightly reduced episodic budget,” he adds. “On previous films like Avengers , all the work we did for Thanos amounted to about 12 minutes of screen time. For She-Hulk , we were creating 43 minutes of walking, talking, emoting, giggling, drinking, you name it. The range of emotions she had to convey – to me that was the biggest challenge. How do we now take what we learnt on those films and get to the
“Our deepfake tech is called Charlatan – it’s our proprietary system that allows us to do a deepfake-like face generation” Melchiorre explains. “We used it for a number of face replacements, especially in the courtroom battle between She-Hulk and Titania early in the season. We used it again in the last third of the season, on some face replacement of the next level – and then some – in this small timeframe, but surpassing what we did with Thanos?” FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT Lots of deepfake was deployed in She- Hulk , thanks to Digital Domain’s very own technology. “Our deepfake tech is called Charlatan – it’s our proprietary system that allows us to do a deepfake-like face generation,”
COURT ADJOURNED Some scenes were filmed using split screening as the pandemic affected the cast’s availability
IDENTITY PARADE Digital Domain used its proprietary deepfake software – Charlatan – for face replacements in the series
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