The fantastic face replacement and other invisible effects work responsible.
Today on the befores & afters podcast we’re talking about the visual effects in William Goldenberg’s film, Unstoppable. I’m joined by visual effects supervisor Thomas Tannenberger from Crafty Apes, and Landon Bootsma from Gneiss Stuff. In the film, which is based on a true story, Jharrel Jerome plays Anthony Robles, who was born without his right leg. Despite this obvious challenge, he is able to win an NCAA wrestling national title.
To film wrestling scenes, the filmmakers used an amazing combination of Anthony Robles doing the wrestling scenes, since he had the incredible skills to provide authentic wrestling moves. Then the VFX team used some machine learning-based face replacement techniques to do face replacement on Anthony with Jharrel’s face. There’s also leg replacement work in there, body slimming, cloth simulation, plus crowds—just a whole lot of invisible visual effects work that I think is seamless.
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