How much of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was real and how much was CGI? Even the film's special-effects (SFX) team had trouble keeping track. Fxguide met with Industrial Light and Magic, the effects team behind "The Force Awakens." ILM revealed amazing behind-the-scenes footage of how they created the SFX in the latest "Star Wars" movie.
"The technology that's available to you is just mind-blowing, really, even for me," Roger Guyett, a visual-effects (VFX) supervisor said in the interview. "I work in this business and I'm shocked at how much we were able to just blur the line between the reality of shooting something and the stuff that we [added] later."
A second video, released through Wired, went into detail about Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o) and the "Medusa" capture technology the VFX team used to bring the character to life.
See the incredible before-and-after images, and the full video, below:
When we first meet Rey in the film, she's scavenging a derelict ship on Jakku.
Daisy Ridley scaled a replica of the hanging object, which then became the ship.
"People clearly wanted some kind of return to the ... DNA of those first three movies," Guyett said.
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