New Moon man be laughed at by many as just another teenage emo drama, but the visual effects used to bring the werewolves to live in ways that can interact with each other and real actors makes use of several cutting-edge technologies. Chris Weitz, Director of the movie, sits down with 30ninjas to talk about the process.
I think any animator will tell you that the toughest things to do are CGI characters interacting with the real world and two CGI characters interacting with each other. That comes up when two creatures fight with one another, and although it’s something we’d done before with The Golden Compass, we had much more time to do it for that film. There’s a wolf fight in New Moon that works extraordinarily well, but you’ve really got two mathematical equations battling it out. You’ve got two physical representations of what something would be like in 3-D space which are conflicting with each other, so you’re figuring out what would give and where, and I can’t claim to hold the keys to that kind of mathematics, but that’s the stuff that takes up a lot of server space.
