“Digital humans are sort of like the holy grail – they’rereallyhard,” says Nelson.
“I knew it would be one of the hardest things I’ve done in my career.
We had many challenges in this movie but this one was definitely the hardest one we did.”
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“It was all very secret – this was our seriously-can’t-talk-about-it thing,” says Nelson.
(The character’s code name, even amongst the crew, was “Rita.")
Hair apparent
Villeneuve directed Peta on the soundstage alongside Ford.
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One thing Nelson particularly is happy with?
“I’m really proud of those flyaway hairs,” he says.
“Digital hair is really beautiful but sometimes it can be too perfect.
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So we made flyaway hair the way it would in real life.”
It greatly helped the animators later on in the complicated human-building process.
“Doing digital human work is so incredibly hard.
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To do these shots took an amazing amount of time,” he says.
“I think real actors are safe for a long while.”
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