Special Effects Team, Modus FX, Talks about Their Work in “Breaking Dawn Part 1”
Oct 21st, 2011 | By Stefanie | Category: Featured Articles, Movie News
Modus FX talks about the subtle effects that they sought to achieve in certain scenes, like those where Bella is pregnant and an unexpected challenge in one of the wedding scenes, in Breaking Dawn Part 1:
Making Stewart look pregnant was one of the tasks assigned to Modus. ‘They wanted the baby to kick and move inside her belly,’ said Wilisky. ‘We had to match the camera moves, the lighting, even the film grain, along with the subtleties of her skin.’
In fact, according to CG supervisor Martin Pelletier, ‘The two hardest things to work with in CG are water and skin.’
‘For this project, we had to be really quick in terms of turn around,’ he explained. ‘We made use of very complex lighting from the set, adding 3D layers, and a matchmove of her stomach, to make her look pregnant. We took our time at the start to get the recipe right and that paid off in efficiency once we got going. We were soon able to turn around several shots each day.’
‘Hand-Crafted’ Visual Effects
In one central sequence – the wedding of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) – the camera pans around the newlyweds as they embrace. However, due to a minor wrist injury, Stewart was wearing a brace on the day of the shoot. Naturally, the brace had to be removed in post.
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Looks like alot of hard work but it had to be done