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Welcome
to the
Jungle
Bill Pope, ASC pushes the
boundaries of virtual cinematography
for director Jon Favreau's photo-real
The Jungle Book.
By Michael Goldman
*|*
D
irector Jon Favreau is an ardent admirer of the 1967
animated Disney film The Jungle Book, but his new
feature of the same name is more than just a re-imagining of that story. Favreau opted for an essentially
unproven virtual-production methodology, and the result is an
almost entirely digitally rendered and animated film that is
intended to look completely photo-real. To realize this ambition, the director tapped cinematographer Bill Pope, ASC.
The film features a sole live-action actor, 13-year-old
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Neel Sethi, who portrays the human boy Mowgli. Only those
pieces of the sets that Sethi directly interacted with are real;
beyond them, all environments, and the entire cast of supporting animal characters, are CG constructs. Among the filmmakers' key collaborators was Rob Legato, ASC, who served
as the film's visual-effects supervisor and second-unit directorcinematographer.
Favreau says the idea was to use a process "not unlike an
animated film, in that it started with a story department,
storyboards and an animatic version. But we moved on to a
process more like Avatar [AC Jan. '10], whereby we created a
motion-capture version of the movie and then shot the actor
[in native 3D] while viewing him interacting with [animated
elements] in real time. Then we took all these pieces, like a
puzzle, and assembled them using the latest technology. In
that sense, we were standing on the shoulders of a giant in
Avatar - that was the film whose process ours most resembled, but unlike that film, ours takes place [on Earth], and
everything in it had to look entirely real. We wanted to put a
live-action sensibility into something that could only be done
in a computer."
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