The big scene of the new Twilight movie ‘Eclipse’ has 1200lb Werewolves taking on an army of 180lb Vampires in an epic hand-on-hand (and fang) combat scene. But when it came time to pull it all together, one question remained: What happens when a person slams into a 1200lb critter at full-out-run? The answer wasn’t pretty, and it took some VFX liberties to make it all work.
“We have to be true to Earth s specific gravity in the performance work to make it seem like the wolves are really there ” Tippett said. “But if a 1 200-pound object is slamming into a human being at 30 miles an hour it s going to have pretty severe consequences. And so there are these scenes where it s like Oh my God how are we going to pull this off ” Their solution was to sprinkle
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