In an exclusive 3-part interview with 30Ninja’s, the VFX guys of 2012 talk about some of the biggest effects and some of the happy accidents they stumbled upon along the way.
MW: Because you look at something sometimes and say, “Wow, it’s not quite right, the scale doesn’t fit right,” so we would watch it at half-speed, and then suddenly it would be, Aha! That’s it. Now the wave looks bigger …
30 NINJAS: And you would leave it in the finished product at half-speed?
MW: Yes. What we’d have to do then, unfortunately, is redo it. You can’t just say, Well, we’ll do it at half-speed. It’s literally, if it’s water and so on, it has to be resimulated; it’s a big deal, but it happened a lot and we had to do that. And very rarely something happens like with this one shot in Yellowstone, where something comes back that looks so cool that we didn’t expect it that way.
