J.J. Abrams Reveals The CG Effect You Definitely Didn't Notice In STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

J.J. Abrams Reveals The CG Effect You Definitely Didn't Notice In STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

Star Wars: The Force Awakens utilised a lot of practical effects, but in the director's commentary for the movie, J.J. Abrams reveals a cleverly hidden piece of CGI during a key scene with Kylo Ren...

By JoshWilding - Oct 30, 2016 12:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: io9
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a movie packed full of incredible practical and visual effects, but in a new excerpt from his director's commentary on the upcoming Blu-ray 3D release, the filmmaker reveals some CGI which was very cleverly hidden in plain sight. First though, he talks about how seeing an unfinished cut of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ultimately led to his decision to cast Andy Serkis as Supreme Leader Snoke (sadly, Abrams doesn't offer up any clues in regards to the villain's identity). 

As for that special effect, the director reveals that Kylo Ren was actually going to be unmasked during this sequence. In fact, they shot it with Adam Driver not wearing the helmet, but when the decision was made to have him reveal his face a little later in the movie during Rey's interrogation, ILM saved the day by creating a flawless CGI mask which looks 100% real! They say that the best example of special effects is when you don't even know it's there, and that was definitely the case this time.

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ComicBookGuy015
ComicBookGuy015 - 10/30/2016, 12:25 PM
Ummm ok
Scarilian
Scarilian - 10/30/2016, 3:23 PM
Issue is this 'effect' didn't matter - and it was noticed by people, but people didn't care as it was not an important aspect as to whether he had the helmet in that scene or not.

It wouldn't have mattered if his face was revealed earlier - as the face reveal had no impact on the movie. The whole movie could have had him wearing the helmet or not wearing the helmet - it wouldn't have made a difference because the design of the character underneath didn't affect the outcome of the film in the slightest.

Couple this with the villains face being revealed previously in magazines, official images from the film and even publicity shoots - what even was the point in hiding him?

The reveal of what his face looked like meant nothing and the fact they wasted money and time on doing a CGI helmet is just dumb.
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 10/30/2016, 3:52 PM
@Scarilian - it did matter, if you paid attention to the dialogue, from a dramatic standpoint. Marketing material is also irrelevant in the long term because no one years from now is going to remember pics in a magazine.
WilliamHMacy
WilliamHMacy - 10/30/2016, 6:50 PM
@Scarilian - Looks very good in close-ups. I wonder if they did the mask in post for the shots from a distance and reshot the close-ups with Driver.
MrPositive
MrPositive - 10/30/2016, 12:25 PM
So.....Rogue One in trouble
KnifeWasTooSlow
KnifeWasTooSlow - 10/30/2016, 12:27 PM
@MrPositive - What happened??
Matfin93
Matfin93 - 10/30/2016, 1:11 PM
@LeonardTheWise - it's been cancelled
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