Celebrating the two-decades anniversary of the Robert Rodriguez film.
I remember getting the two-disc DVD collector’s edition of Sin City and watching a featurette on there called ‘The Movie in High-Speed Green Screen’.
It was, exactly that.
Director Robert Rodriguez presented just the raw elements shot at his Troublemaker Studios on greenscreen, which had been sped up about 800 times to form a 10 minute ‘take’ on the movie.
This was an amazing thing to see. Along with the DVD’s other informative featuretes, I learnt a lot. I certainly wish other filmmakers did something similar on these kinds of films.
Of course, Wes Ball released the ENTIRE version of his Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes with the raw performance capture plates (called ‘Inside the Lens: The Raw Cut’) on Blu-ray recently, and I highly recommend it.
Please, let’s make this a thing again.
In the meantime, this week represents the 20th anniversary of Sin City, a film that capitalized appropriately on the digital backlot style of filmmaking and made it work perfectly for Frank Miller’s source material.
A bevy of effects studios contributed to the film, including KNB EFX Group, Troublemaker Digital Studios, Hybride, CafeFX and The Orphanage.
Congrats to all of them, and thank you Robert Rodriguez for bringing Sin City to life, and being willing to explain and reveal the process.
