{"id":584720,"date":"2023-07-28T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/haunted-mansion-how-vfx-brought-classic-ghosts-to-the-big-screen\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T22:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:30:30","slug":"haunted-mansion-how-vfx-brought-classic-ghosts-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/haunted-mansion-how-vfx-brought-classic-ghosts-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Haunted Mansion\u2019: How VFX Brought Classic Ghosts to the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n In creating Disney\u2019s new movie Haunted Mansion<\/em>, members of the visual effects team took walks through the iconic Haunted Mansion ride for inspiration. In the ride, which first opened in 1969 at Disneyland, guests walk through the gate and into the Mansion before being guided into \u201cDoom Buggies\u201d in which they ride through the haunted house and meet many ghosts along the way.<\/p>\n

\n Of course, this was conceived at a time before CG and other digital tricks became a familiar part of venue-based entertainment. But capturing the ride\u2019s familiar look and feel was part of the goal of the VFX team, led by production VFX supervisor Edwin Rivera, who also works for vendor DNEG. Along with with Industrial Light & Magic and Opsis, the team completed the movie\u2019s nearly 2,000 VFX shots. \u201cIt\u2019s always fun to bring to life something iconic from people\u2019s childhood,\u201d Rivera tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n In 1969, the ghosts that app<\/a>ear in the ride were created with a clever, low-tech method know as a Pepper\u2019s Ghost, which is effectively a 2D illusion created with reflections and named after John Henry Pepper, who used this projection approach for entertainment during the 1800s. More recently, the technique re-entered entertainment landscape when it was used to put performers on a live stage, notably when the late Tupac Shakur \u201cappeared\u201d at the 2012 Coachella Festival. The appearance was frequently billed as a hologram, though it was not.<\/p>\n

\n To come up with the technique used in the movie, Rivera and director Justin Simien explored many approaches that Hollywood has used to create ghosts, and then formulated a recipe that they felt was right for their apparitions.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t actually use the Peppers Ghost effect, but we did look to see what the ultimate effect was,\u201d Rivera says of the work on the movie. \u201cWhen you\u2019re on the ride, it\u2019s not like it\u2019s CG. But it feels like it\u2019s see through. They inspired us as to how to make [actors playing the ghosts] feel like they\u2019re both there and not there, both physical and ephemeral at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Simien wanted real actors playing the ghosts in full costumes and makeup to be on the set during filming. \u201cThere was a more grounded feel to it,\u201d Rivera says, adding that they then used an approach he describes as \u201cectoplasmic effervescence.\u201d He elaborates, \u201cwhen your hand is sitting in a bioluminescent algae, when you\u2019re not moving it, nothing\u2019s really happening. But as you move it, you start to see that the agitation lights up these particles. [Similarly] as these ghosts move through space, they create these ghost-like particles. And then another layer was a transparency to the body that [also] revealed this decrepit skeleton underneath in any area that they were shadowed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n To do this, the team used witness cameras during filming in order to get the coordinates of the actors playing ghosts in costumes and makeup. \u201cWe then created CG scans of their bodies to use as the generation point for the particles,\u201d Rivera says, \u201cand then we made sure that we did clean passes of every single scene so that we could reveal what was behind the actors at any given time.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe had the best of both worlds,\u201d Rivera sums up. \u201cWe had an actor that was actually there, but then this kind of other element that made them feel like they were not of this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n