It's not a Marvel movie, this is Mamma Mia
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Replying to @arthur_affect @the_moviebob
Seriously? Would never have thought Mamma Mia needed greenscreen looooool
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Replying to @FSOBrooklyn @the_moviebob
That's what the post is about, more of the movie is fake than a typical Marvel movie The whole point of the movie is touring the gorgeous landscapes of Europe and they never physically went there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FSOBrooklyn
And what SHOULD be the point of the post is that *everything* - not just blockbusters, not just superhero movies and DEFINITELY not just Marvel/Disney ones has been using A TON more green screen and digital retouching than 99% of the audience comprehends for the last 20+ years...
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...the minute we started scanning entire films into digital for editing and color-grading (TRIVIA: "O Brother Where Art Thou?" was the first - Michael Bay asked the Coens to teach him how to get the orange skin/blue sky look from that!) it's been one boundary-push...
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...after another for the entire business in that department: Backgrounds, windows, whole cities, height, facial blemishes, eyes and hair, signage on streets, weather, particle effects, taking inches and pounds off this or that actor... stuff you'll NEVER see revealed even...
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...Okay but why did they need to use CGI for confetti? Was Party City experiencing a shortage or something?
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Speaking from experience: Things like confetti, dirt, smoke, sand, snow, dust, just random pieces of debris NEVER do exactly what you want them to do and they're a gigantic pain in the ass to set up more than once.
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Yeah as I understand it smoke is a very common thing to do with VFX, trying to make real smoke exactly as smokey as you want it to be but no smokier is a huge PITA
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Outside of something actually burning onscreen, you've very seldom seen 100% real "smoke clouds" onscreen. Smoke doesn't photograph well. Live-fires pre-CGI usually added chemicals to make smoke "smokier," dry ice fog got used in black and white...
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Yeah it's like how old school onscreen rain was milk
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