Amazing Hollywood VFX. So well done in fact that most of the time we dont actually see it, at all!But pretty much everything we see in the movies has a whole ton of CGI behind it, enhancing it into the polished scenes weve grown to love.For the Desolation of Smaug, Benedict Cumberbatch not only recorded the voice of Smaug but also had a camera strapped to his head as he thrashed about on the sound stage.Koba from the Dawn of The Planet of The Apes was a CG version of actor Toby Kebbell who acted out the bonobos part throughout. A fully computer-generated model was then constructed and rigged with the tracking points from Kebbells face and body. The motion capturing mixed with CGI is what made the chimps in the movie so convincing.Game of Thrones! Its pretty obvious to every viewer that Daenerys dragons were CGI. It would have been a lot less convincing to simply enhance giant puppets. But she still needed to interact with the dragons on set so rudimentary green props were used.The same challenge was encountered on a much larger scale with the skeletons.In Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket Raccoons CG character was based on very a real raccoon named Oreo. Also, there was a teddy bear version that would be filmed after the plate, so the animators could get a feel of how its fur reacted to the scenes lighting. In many of Rockets dialogue scenes, a speaker and microphone were strapped to an extra to give the other actors something to react to and for the other scenes, actor Sean Gunn would kneel in front of them reciting Rockets lines. Many of his body movements were used in the final animation. Its no surprise that Man Of Steel is packed full of CGI.When your main character is expected to have super speed and fly around the skies, theres going to be some special effects involved. However, something that wasnt CGI was Henry Cavills pecks as the actor refused any digital touch-ups or enhancement to his body in his shirtless scenes. He also refused to take steroids to muscle up for the role saying it would have been dishonest of him to use trickery while playing Superman and he wanted to push his body to the limits to develop his physique into one that was worthy of the character.In X-Men Days of Future Past, Mystique was so much more complex than Jennifer Lawrence in a blue suit. The actors reels would have to transition seamlessly from one another and VFX artists added a system called Feather Groom tracked virtually to Lawrences blue skin changing color as the scales are flipped over. This system could be moved over her entire body like a ripple in water.For her role as Mystique, Jennifer Lawrence wore a special bodysuit. She had previously worn full-body prosthetics in X-Men: First Class but found that too uncomfortable.Some people wonder why the majority of the end fight of the Avengers was filmed on a green screen and not in the real Manhattan streets. Just the logistics alone, of shutting down a street for the entire shoot would have been a nightmare not to mention having to add so much digital debris and matte paintings afterwards anyway, that the whole thing may as well have been CGI from the start. And so it was. Artists had to create cars, mailboxes, fire hydrants, traffic lights, concrete streets, cables, bars, you name it, they CGd it.Amazing Hollywood VFX. So well done in fact that most of the time we dont actually see it, at all!But pretty much everything we see in the movies has a whole ton of CGI behind it, enhancing it into the polished scenes weve grown to love.Like the music in this video?Music By: Monkey MediaAlbum Title: MonkeyGet it on Google Play:https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Monkey_Media_Monkey?id=Bowcdm4d3e27oxtldklnn7ynwju&hl=en_USGet it on iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/monkey/1457690282Listen on Spotify:Buy it on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Media/dp/B07NRQCQ7Y/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=monkey+media&qid=1554364061&s=gateway&sr=8-2The post Amazing Before & After Hollywood VFX appeared first on Fame Focus.