Visual Effect Artist Guarantees Realistic Aliens in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
With Star Wars now having successfully taken over the world, and guaranteeing that a week will no longer ever go by without more news on the sci-fi saga, anticipation for this year's spin-off film is beginning to build.
One visual effects artist on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has opened up regarding the effort being made to making the most life-like aliens as possible for the new film.
Neal Scanlan, Creature Supervisor on the film (that's some job title), discussed conversations had with director Gareth Edwards regarding the aliens.
"Working with Gareth now on Rogue One, he sees these aliens as being much more part of the human [world]. They co-habitate, they work together and so it's pushed us very much to create characters that are more realistic. They move more realistically, they're able to emote more than maybe the characters that we did for The Force Awakens.
"So they're a closer part of the storytelling. They're less of the world, and they're more of this group who have a mission, and play a part in that."
Scanlan describes the experiences of working with Edwards and J.J. Abrams as incredibly different, as those aliens that inhabited The Force Awakens were quite simplistic, making 'blink-and-you'll-miss-them' appearances.
His feelings toward either director or process do not dip or rise, as Scanlan explained that the sequence in Mos Eisley in The Force Awakens existed to try and emulate that of A New Hope, which was a challenge in and of itself.
Source: Cinemablend
