There was only a little bit of simulation work for direct contact bubbles. For Rian falling into the water, we were able to do most of it with 2D elements such as bubbles and splashes that DNEG had in their library. With the announcement of Netflix’s upcoming The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance series, we’re feeling very high about the wonders of Jim Henson’s world and the. “Every single part of the frame was moving so it would take days to render out a shot for our CG portion of the forest.” Noise patterns were created to simulate water for the wide shot of Rian jumping out of the castle.
skekEkt the Ornamentalist is part of the Skeksis race, who are reptilian. The art department would come in and on top of that they would find these amazing vines that were a ribbon that had fibres coming off of it which blew in the wind nicely.” This is the head of the skekEkt puppet from the 1982 film The Dark Crystal. That meant that the forest was real leaves, moss, grass, and vines.
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“In the original movie everything moves to create the feeling that the entire world is alive. “For the extension of the Endless Forest every leaf is a unique asset with some of them have to be dropping off and trees are blowing in the wind,” reveals Mathiesen. A 10-part series, it includes 180 puppet characters, 90 different sets and 10,000 lines. Skies were mostly sky domes and matte paintings while heavy simulations were needed for the Endless Forest. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, premiering Friday on Netflix, is built on an even grander scale. In postvis, we were able to stitch together this story and put it in front of Louis that process went on for many months.” Henson and Oz created a puppet movie to end all puppet movies, this one has nothing but puppets and it maintains. Photos: Netflix/Jim Henson Company It really shows off what went into this. We got to do postvis and were able to figure out that camera at that angle told the right story of the carriage up on a ridge about to dive down into a channel in-between some rocks in the forest. The Dark Crystal exhibit shows how one puppet went from concept sketch to construction to the screen. We stitched together a 360-degree environment that could be sorted out in post.
We made a poor man’s version of an array rig by getting the camera operator to run down the forest with the camera pointing forward, and panning over 30 degrees and running down again.
“We had to get an underslung Steadicam three inches off of the ground at 10 miles per hour running down these tiny footpaths in the middle of the woods. That includes Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy. Streaming on Netflix on August 30, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a prequel to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s cult 1982 puppet fantasy film, The Dark Crystal with an all-star voice cast.
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We couldn’t get an array camera because of being in such a small place as well as the camera height and freedom of the movement of the camera relative to the real-world carriage.” The heroes and villains may all be puppets, but this is some of the most human storytelling on TV right now. “I divided the location into five or six different zones. “I made a cardboard cut-out of the carriage that was 10-percent of the real-world size, took photos and showed them to Louis he gave us the broad strokes of things that would work for him,” states Mathiesen. The Gelflings pay crippling tithes to the Skeksis and literally bow in gratitude for the Skeksis guarding the Crystal - but in truth, the evil and awful Skeksis have been sapping the Crystal of its strength, literally absorbing its magic into their beings in a quest to live for a thousand trine or longer.Puzzlewood, situated on the border of England and Wales, serves as the background for the carriage chase. The primary species are the most human-like, or at least elf-like: the Gelflings, a peaceful and passive group consisting of seven different clans, each living in a separate city or valley or forest or cave.įor the last 2,000 trine (Thra-speak for a time unit something like a year), the Gelflings have lived under the rule of the Skeksis, a tribe of nauseatingly ugly, giant bird-beings that are the “protectors” of the Crystal of Truth, which is the source of all power and energy and is basically the glimmering heart of the entire Thra world. The story unfurls in the magical and beautiful and wondrous world of Thra, populated by a dizzying array of humanoid beings and colorful and (sometimes quite disgusting-looking) creatures ranging from the very tiny and adorable to the enormous and hideous and terrifying.
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