How did Captain America's body change behind the scenes?

Chris Evans, the star of Captain America, has all the real muscles without any special effects, but in the first third of the film, the 220-pound character he wants to play is a 140-pound little man, which is obviously impossible with traditional makeup. Previously, the team wanted to use some special shooting techniques used in The Lord of the Rings (such as looking up and covering key parts with some props and environment), but there were too many shots involved in these aspects in the film, which could not be done. Lola finally decided to replace her head with digital means, just like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Step 1: Test

The film crew first found two characters of different sizes, one thin and the other strong, took some actions of standing, sitting and walking, and then handed them over to some special effects companies for testing. Let them try to narrow down the role, so as to get the statistics of production difficulty and time.

Step 2: Find a stuntman.

The team found an actor, leander Tini (body double, Chris Evans, Shakespeare, England). He has a good imitation ability.

Comedian training

The production team did not use tracking buttons on the actors, and they preferred to keep the original texture. In every scene of Little Steve (Captain America's name), in order to show his physical characteristics, Chris Evans wore an oversized coat and a hat, as if he had been swallowed up by a coat. Chris will walk 4 feet every step, and the restored character will only walk 3 feet every step, so he will receive a training called "Glock Marx". If he is in the car, he should keep his head down; Bend your knees when walking to reduce your height by 6 inches; Then the team only needs to trim his leg to make it look like a normal person, so it doesn't need to change the background of the picture to cover up the head of body double. This method is particularly useful, especially when there is a large group of people behind the protagonist.

Step 4: All the plays must be filmed twice.

After Chris finished each performance, Leander Deeny imitated all his movements perfectly again, so other actors and photographers should try to repeat them. In addition, the makeup artist also made his face look like Chris's, but this is not for motion capture, but for lighting as a reference.

Step 5: Upgrade the "Digital Skin Transplantation Component"

Without a green screen, Chris's body should be deformed, and Lola hopes that the big man's body can stay in the picture. Through a series of twists and turns, they contracted their strong bodies, but still kept his performances, and the muscles and bone structures in the deformed bodies also contracted accordingly. They upgraded the technology "Digital Skin Transplantation Component" in X-Men 3 to help preserve the texture and skin materials of the prototype.

Handle muscles

In order to make Chris slim, we have to deal with biceps, mandibular muscles and trapezius muscles (the muscles have been reduced by 60%), and the shadows generated by the muscles have to be erased. Even the mesh of each finger has been deformed, in fact, the fingers should be thinner rather than just smaller (the background is compressed).

Step 7: Shrink your face.

Thin is not only the figure, but also the face. The face becomes smaller and the character becomes haggard, which can't reduce Chris's masculinity. Finally, the chin is reduced by 23%, and the eyes are reduced by 16% (if the eye ratio is too large, the character looks like a child). But you can't move your eyes. If your eyes are slightly raised, you will look like a woman; if your eyes are tilted, you will look like Stallone.

Step 8: Make a three-dimensional model.

For some special scenes, Chris went to Lola to perform alone for 2 hours as data capture, which was used to make 3D models and project them on Leander Deeny. This part uses social networking technology. The range of synthesis is from hairline to chin line, and the left and right range is between the ears. Leander and Chris have very different ears, so they need to be modified to match. Only 5% of these shots are used, and the most typical shot is that the thin hero is half naked in the recruitment center, and the body belongs to leander Dine. In the rest of these shots, the main functions of body double are lighting and modeling reference.

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