Visual F/X

[Zotyto]

A Spanish interview with the Argentine special effects artist Pablo Helman.

diariohoy.net/espectaculos/pablo-helman-el-argentino-que-trabajo-con-scorsese-spielberg-y-george-lucas-93485


Google Translate:

- What will be your contribution?
"We must get Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino to look 30 years younger. For this, a rather complicated process is necessary because for more than half of the film they should look this way.

The interpreters do not want to use the technology of the white dots and then do the visual effects on the characters, then we had to work a lot and change the technique. If the new modality we propose, which was tested in a shoot with Robert De Niro and went well, will work will be a revolution for the industry.

[arnzilla]

www.businessinsider.in/Robert-De-Niro-explains-how-his-highly-anticipated-new-movie-reverse-ages-him-by-decades/articleshow/58649969.cms

De Niro, 73, told Business Insider on Friday while promoting his upcoming HBO movie about Bernie Madoff, "The Wizard of Lies" (airing May 20), that he's already met with the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic and filmed test footage of him delivering lines from a classic Scorsese movie to achieve the effect that makes him look much younger.

"We did some tests. I did a scene from 'Goodfellas' and they worked on that piece and we've been slowly moving along," De Niro said. "We're going to make it great."

[gabriel]

Best de-aging job I've seen so far:

[nas78]

Tonight they are gonna blow up a car in Dongan Hills...Cooool!!!...
www.silive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/10/scorsese_in_dongan_hills_whats.html

[nas78]

They Did It. They Fucking Did It. Thats Fucking Awesome.

[nas78]

Damn That Was So Close. I Almost Felt The Impact.

[nas78]

Anatomy Of A Scene: The Rashomon Effect

[gabriel]

Those white dots in Pacino's shirt, like De Niro's in this pic.

[gabriel]

And also, padded chest on Pacino?, or the real thing?

[gabriel]

Padded chest theory circling around

pacinobooty Even more new pics from The Irishman! 📽🌟 (Swipe to see all five!) It looks like he's wearing some padding and slouching under baggy clothing to look paunchier. These are probably from the scenes where they're going to digitally de-age them. How long did it take you to notice the coke nail? #alpacino #martinscorsese #theirishman #jimmyhoffa #franksheeran #2017 #movies #filming #nyc #bobbybank #helookslikeakoopa

[gabriel]

Al Pacino Reveals Martin Scorsese’s CGI Technique For Creating His Jimmy Hoffa Character

Director and producer Barry Levinson and Al Pacino stopped by The Bill Simmons Podcast to discuss their new film Paterno for HBO, but it was the details Pacino dropped about another film that were particularly intriguing.

In shooting the film, which also stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Bobby Cannavale, Pacino described the following to Simmons: “There [are] computers on the camera, on the sides… so physically, you’re changed. I was playing Jimmy Hoffa at the age of 39, they’re doing that on the computer. We went through all these tests and things, then I’m playing [him at] 48, even in my 50’s. Someone would come to me sand say, ‘You’re 39.’ Your body tries to acclimate to that and think that way.”

Later on in the conversation, Pacino continued, “While it was going on I had no idea. I never saw myself in the character of Hoffa and then I actually saw footage of myself as a 39-year-old Hoffa. So I’d keep wondering, is it gonna work? It just seems like I’m not doing anything, but there were things we did, we had to wear certain things, they tape things on us. We went into a studio here and these guys are geniuses that do this stuff. They put us in these rooms with all these lights and told us to just animate and speak, because they recorded it on a computer for hours and then they put it together. It’s been tried before and it’s been done before well, but I think this may be another step.”

[nas78]

Thanks Gabriel for the article.

Unlike the 3D crap, which is now dead (as i predicted), this CGI technology of de-aging is great.
It works. I`ve seen it in previous films. I approve of it. I`m fascinated and anxious about this.

[Leo_The_Last]

An Indiewire article about de-aging, including a little bit about the upcoming Scorsese epic:

‘Captain Marvel’: Samuel L. Jackson’s Digital De-Aging Is Just the Start of New VFX Advancements

While de-aging reaches new heights at Marvel, there are more wow moments to come with Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" and Ang Lee's "Gemini Man"
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For ILM, the eagerly awaited de-aging on “The Irishman” (which Netflix purchased from Paramount at a cost north of $125 million) should be a vast improvement over the disappointing work on the late Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin) in “Rogue One.” They continue to evolve their Oscar-winning facial performance-capture solving system more effectively in optimal lighting conditions, and De Niro and Pacino were actively involved on set with face-mapping to best create their iconic looks from “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II.”
www.indiewire.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-samuel-l-jackson-de-aging-1202052006/

[nas78]

De Niro has been revisiting his past in other ways lately, by acting in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix-produced “The Irishman,” which comes out this fall and will be the subject of a conversation between De Niro and Scorsese during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. In the movie, De Niro stars as hit man and union leader Frank Sheeran, and his character — along with those played by Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, and others — age across several decades. Scorsese has repeatedly employed pricey VFX to de-age his cast. “They’re trying to really make it the best it’s ever been,” De Niro said. “What I’ve seen looks really good.”

De Niro has some prior experience with de-aging in the 2013 boxing movie “Grudge Match,” but the technology was less sophisticated and required the actors to wear intrusive head gear for the CGI to work. “When I did it in ‘Grudge Match,’ we had more obstructive things on,” De Niro said. “Marty was concerned, rightly so, that we should not have things on us that would be distracting. We had some dots, some reflective things, all subtle stuff.”

De Niro’s producing partner and Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal noted that the camera technology did lend a different challenge to the set. “They did have this three-headed monster of a camera that was around all the time,” she said. “They had hair and costumes of the period, but they didn’t have to worry about anything else that was intrusive. So the goal here was that it was a more intuitive way of working for an actor.”

Coming on the heels of Samuel L. Jackson’s de-aging in “Captain Marvel,” De Niro said his experience on “The Irishman” has lead him to think about new opportunities afforded by the technology. “If it’s going to extend my career by 30 years, that’s fine with me,” he said.

www.indiewire.com/2019/04/robert-de-niro-joker-king-of-comedy-1202055636/

[Zotyto]

The trailer for Ang Lee's Gemini Man is out. In case someone wants to see Hollywood's latest de-aging attempt...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbyJignbSj0