Harrison Ford and his CGI Dog. "The Call of the Wild" VFX Breakdown
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This relatively short film tells the story of "Buck" the dog. After being stolen from his comfortable home in California, he is sold and ends up being transported to Alaska to become a sled dog.
Here, he slowly sheds the comforts of civilized life and becomes more dependant on his primal instincts in order to survive. Like the music in this video?
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Previs.
Early on the team knew that in order to make this film, Buck and the other dogs would have to be 100% CG. They also knew that with all the CG environments needed, it made sense to create the world that the movie would be shot in, before principal photography.
This led to staging every scene to get real-time visualizations of how their set would be. this enabled them to identify what needed to be virtual and what could be done physically.
Getting Physical
In previs, the team found out they would need various different rivers, one for panning gold, another for swimming and canoeing, and another for other interactions with Buck. Rather than scout out different locations that wouldn't be quite right, the special effects team decided to build their own 300ft river.
Let it Snow
Although the majority of the story takes place in the Yukon, it was mostly filmed in California, and one thing the Yukon has that California doesn't, is snow. The special effects team had to use a variety of different methods to "create" snow depending on the set location and what scene was being filmed. For the sledding scenes, super slippery snow was needed so they used a similar substance to the absorbent white polymer you find in diapers.
The Thunderdome
MPC was chosen to lead the VFX in this film, thanks to their previous work with CG dogs.
Early on, MPC realized that the most complicated part of adding CG dogs would be matching the lighting of the dogs to that of principal photography.
When filming an exterior scene on an indoor set, lighting is key. if you just light for a generic day, the lighting will lack depth and contrast. If you light for a specific situation and time of day it adds complexity but it is also harder to match CG elements in post.
In order to make this easier, the type of sky to be used had to be chosen before principle photography. MPC compiled 500 different skydomes for the director to choose from.
On the set, they rigged up 300 Arri SkyPanels (LED Softlight panels) and a layer of muslin underneath. They use a Plug-in that had been written for the unity game engine that takes the hemispheric skydome imagery and communicates with a DMX switcher. this allowed them to control the 300 light panels and match the lighting on set, to the Skydome imagery.
Playing Buck
All the dogs in this movie are CG. This creates various problems during principal photography. One of them is that when you have a scene with multiple extras, you need someone, or something, to stop them from invading the space where your CG asset is going to be. Another problem is that the actors have to interact with the CG asset.
In order to overcome these issues, the team brought in a Movement Choreographer called Terry Notary. Terry performed "Like a dog", his movements and mannerisms drove the other actor's performances as well as camera movement and framing, and the emotion he showed was a good reference for MPC to match with their CG asset.
His Running and trotting had to be almost identical to that of a dog, so that MPC's CG dog could hit all the marks in a scene, whilst still moving as a dog would.
Criticism
A lot of people have criticized this film with comments like "Unnecessary use of VFX" and "VFX ruin the movie", but we think that this may be a little unfair.
During the production of this Fox Searchlight film, 21st Century Fox was acquired by Disney. When MPC was about a quarter of the way through animation, reviews for the new Lion King film came out. these reviews claimed that the film lacked emotion.
There was, therefore, quite a lot of pressure to avoid this criticism in "The call of the Wild".
Although MPC's "Buck" has incredibly detailed fur and his movements are almost identical to those of a real dog, what lets it down, is the attempt to show more emotion than a real dog can portray.
You can have a 100% photo-real dog, but over-exaggerate its eyebrow movements, open its eyes too much, or slap a smile on its face and it turns into a cartoon.
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I just saw this movie and I enjoyed it a lot. Never thought Buck was played by a man. Incredible to learn how much effort went into this movie ❤️
as a VFX artist I actually have great trouble getting immersed inside these type of greenscreen movies. VFX is most succesful if it is used to compliment/touch-up real imagery.
this movie proves Harrison Ford's incredible acting abilities by petting a grown man on the head with a straight face.
While a liked the end result much I still ponder sometimes about how much "takes" did the one or other scene take? and how much did it cost? 🙃😉
Harrison ford was amazing in this movie
and this is why I haven't been to the movies for years
yeah, like you have ever been to any live Broadway show either.
@@whoeverwhoever400 Why would that matter?
I heard the movie is good despite the cgi dogs
It’s not as easy as pie to create a complete film. Two-hour movie at the cinema is still indeed a couple of months or even years long to create in reality! Their hard work deserves huge earnings and appreciation!
3:53 HAHAHA
I don't think I could stay serious if I was the actor
The probably an entire gag-reel out there to fill up a runtime.
Based on a novel by Jack London, this film has a compelling plot and great ending. Watching this makes me appreciate how much work goes into this kinds of films. A very ambitious project. Overall the team behind this film did an incredible job.
I found this movie in the $5 bin at Walmart and got it because my 8 yr old son loved the book. He loved this movie, too! Of course the dogs were CGI and their facial expressions were a little extra than real dogs, but considering that the main protagonist is a canine, the audience needs to know what's going through Buck's mind (more easily explained in the book). I think they did a great job with the animation.
It looks like a video game, and the animation of the dogs looks so unnatural and siff! Dog movements are sloppier and spontaneous, there's a sort of sweetness and goofiness that dogs have that is completely missing in this film. The lighting and rendering of the environments it's outstanding and impossible to differentiate from reality but when it comes to reproduce emotions there's still a long way to go.
I think the main problem is, they try to give the CGI dog human emotions, and facial expressions, which of course will never work.
@@mrkirk4944 i think they made it that way to attract childrens
I personally loved it! I'm a 73 year old woman and it didn't look fake to me, or cartoony...but you can never please everyone, especially those who can't produce anything even close to this wonderful movie!
@@francine8302 Totally agree, you can never please everyone, I'm actually a professional who work in animation and special effects so my trained eye will always detect when something looks off and inevitably it takes me out of the story
they don't make movies like they used to , like white fang with a real dog/wolf , or beethoven with a real dog , now is cgi for everything , i dont like it , it´s not natural
I was fully half way through this movie before I realized the dogs were cgi. The realization blew me away. Overall I was disappointed because I expected an "adult" movie and this was a kids film. But the CGI was amazing.
I'm 61 years old and I really enjoyed the movie. It's good to just let go and enjoy a movie like a child sometimes. Escaping the stresses of being an adult for a little while is good for the soul.
I wonder if HARRISON FORD thought this would be different and he’d get to go to Alaska in the fresh air with a real dog as a change from the STAR WARS blue/green screens...
CGI.. makes me appreciate the movies pre 2000s when they had real dogs
Seriously and of ALL stories to ruin they had to do call of the wild, it's such a good book
Many of those involved animal cruelty to get them to do what the people wanted
@@Russetfur1128 maybe half the movies do, most with dogs do not because if the dog was abused it wouldn't be so well trained to do what it's told, it'd be scared of its handlers and trainers instead and wouldn't go to them on the scene without showing fear/stress in their body language that the audience would be able to see. I don't mind cgi when it's done realistically though! They just made Buck SOOO clearly cgi, like the cgi jungle book and lion king were amazingly executed and looked more real
Many movies abuse animals to get what they wanted today is definitely better cause they aren't real animals
They did an amazing job when it came to the jungle book, but this would only be a good movie if the whole thing was cgi
I miss 80's and 90's...
Really? Horribly depressing decades. Some 90s films are decent, but not so many from the 80s that I'd care to watch now.
@@scarfholdgraphicsmedia9501 Not for me.
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5:24 theres a fur pop on the dogs screen left shoulder arena. and its not just thee human characteristics of the dogs face (smile, eyes too wide) but also the acting and movements of the "acting" parts. dogs move their heads and bodies in distinct ways. and like humans, we are VERY familiar with how dogs move and physically act. having a CG dog move slowly and nod their head when they talk is as distracting as q boom mic dropping into the shot. suspension of disbelief is out the window. but EXCELLENT job on all the VFX companies. these people sleep under their desks to hit incredibly painful deadlines.
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The amount of detailils is just crazy !!!
If that is cheaper than filming at an original location then something is going horribly wrong in Hollywood.
It isn't. They are just lazy people out for a quick buck.
Great work
I love this movie so much! It kinda reminds me of balto because of the scene where buck and spitz fight. And also spirit sotc but with dogs (they don't speak but they show emotions through facial expressions and body language)
The seventh art 👍fantastic
3:53 What a sweet dog
I wish this movie had more hype, it was such a great movie to literally almost be forgotten, I thought they’d make song and videos and drawings and merchandise for it, but nothing happened.
I thought Buck is a real dog , but he is a real man! Godamn! Amazing!!
I don't think I've ever seen Harrison Ford look so sad as when he is cuddling up to a man with ping pong balls glued onto his lycra catsuit.
lion king looks great, animation's top notched. this, can't say the same.
Amazing
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Nice video ❤️
Informative video good
I just saw this movie! One of the best movies i ever seen in my life. Thanks who made this movie! 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🐕
That's absolutely correct that how ever hard we try, VFX or CGI can't be as perfect as in real life....If if there is 99.9 % perfection, still 0.1% will be left ans so we can't blame the artist as they are doing the best they can ❤️
Unfortunately for this movie they were working with a ratio closer to about 50% perfection at a cost of close to 10 times the price then just doing it live action with trained dogs and then supplementing with cg.
We can blame the artists or the people telling the artists to give the CG dogs way too human like expressions making them come of more like Scooby Doo than a real dog.
Not gonna lie this movie makes me cry
that is the best channal ever
Very nice!
I would pay good money to watch unedited version, where the dog is just a guy in spandex suit
WE LOVE THIS FILM !!!
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@@fceditzz7406 Yes
wow amazing
I love this movie, since I just read the book with my son and didn’t know that the movie was made by CGI before watching it.
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Best film 🎥 I ever seen
I'd pay $100 to see a cut of this film before the CGI was added in.
Pass. The dog is as animated as Jar Jar Binks.
:D i feel bad for Harrison Ford
The dog movement looks odd, you can tell that it is CGI
Yep one early scene has the dog thundering down a hallway, showing his size and weight. Then soon after his master can easily drag him one-handed down the hallway to the outside and swing him around by his collar in one swift movement as if the dog weighs nothing...
You want a dragon in your movie - ok, draw and animate it. But dog?! You have very clever dog on motion capture set - why you need fully cgi dog? So stupid...
Well said, I never understood that part
Yea you should show them how to do it
Exactly. CGI only makes sense when you do things that you can't do in real life.
The fact that Hollywood uses a trained live dog in a mocap suit to create a cgi version of it is just plain stupid. These people in Hollywood are a waste of time and money. So lets make it more difficult to light and edit things instead of using practical real authentic people, places, & things to do it. I get CGI in some things. But this is just utterly stupid. I can see why Christopher Nolan does what he does. It makes sense. Ergo why his films come out looking great. Because the artist actually know who or what they are acting to & with.
Using CGI animals in filmmaking may avoid being accused of animal cruelty in modern society.
the emotions of the dogs in that film were indeed much better than in the lion king life action. then it was just sad
My own is that I love what I'm seeing...
Very well.
Salute to those actors who can still focus and not being destructed by the dog's CGI stunt.
Wow
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"Dogs are perfect.. Any ideas how we can fix that?"
I saw this movie it was amazing
I love this movie but it sad he lose his owner he lost his freind
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who's the dog? ...I mean the actor!...great dog...I mean actor!...😀😁😂
I love it..
Ummm California has snow. See we have these things called mountains that are really tall with trees and such ... that's where we keep our snow. California is FAR more than just LA and the Bay area
Some parts of California have snow but not all
Just like people have misconceptions about Utah. It's not all Moab. It's not all Salt Lake. We have mountains. We have lakes and rivers. We have valleys and sand dune deserts. We have red rock, black rock, brown and Grey. We have forests and slot canyons, and I know other states also have a wonderful diversity in them. Heck, even Hawaii gets snow!
VERY VERY NICE MOVIE
I wonder if Harrison Ford will be CGI in Raiders 5?
lol
I just finished the movie and i cant get one thing out of my mind idk did i miss it or something but what happened to the herd that carried mail? Did they die?
yes i wonder too what happen to all of them
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This was cool.Would be cool to see Ready player one VFX Breakdown.
Cant believe people criticise this... This is a masterpiece!
also, harrison ford refused to leave california! he never wanted to shoot in snow, and the whole film changed for that lol
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I have a film how can i do?
Wow
Today, movie as a magic show. Open the curtains would made audience up sad.
Next godizall vs kong
Why do more movies nowadays are becoming a fantasy? We are in a REAL WORLD. :(
@Phoenix or read the book, buck rips 2 peoples’ throat out in 1 page
Movies have always been about suspending disbelief.
The best Hollywood movie.maker..
They gave this dog human-like expressions... Dogs don't move and act like that!
Its less about dog CGI or too much VFX, and more about the fact that Dogs aren’t that intuitive of or fluent at communicating with humans, so when you try to suggest that they are it makes for an unrealistic characterisation.
Tell it to Lassie
@@paulknight9998 Perfect comparison. Lassie shows you actual dog responses to humans, not anthropomorphised responses that dogs don’t make. Good call.
So the main characters are Ford and the dog, did that dude get paid as much as Ford, or at least half of what Ford got paid?
Hard to get invested when it's all cgi
they f*ked up at CGI fire at the end of the movie sooo bad... rest of the CGI is piece of art..
The reason they went with a CGI background was because Harrison Ford didn't want to leave to Alaska, where the set location was going to be at. He wouldn't film if it wasn't filmed at the location they were in.
Should have got another actor.
@@MavisRileyJunior They were fresh out of Harrison Fords unfortunately
@@MavisRileyJunior Yes, they should have got another actor I totally agree.
I love Harrison Ford, but isn't. It time he retires? Get another actor, go to Alaska, and do it right.
A lot of whinging about how the film was made! The only thing that really matters is WASTHIS A GOOD FILM? Yes it was the actors were great, the story was sad but true, and the efforts that all those people made to make this film was truly fantastic So just watch it again and try and enjoy what you see!
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Hey can you do that um..... The Other Guys jumping scene? I always wonder how they make that, it feel so real.
I don't think he needs to do a video on that. It's probably just stuntmen jumping on big blue/green mattresses.
Here's the explanation!
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@@JJDumonceau dang man!!!! Thanks a lot!!?
Somewhere in there
No hate on the efforts put into making this movie.
But at that point, just make the whole movie animated.
that guy playing a dog x'DDDD
Nobody knows but all Nation Geographic movies are CG.
This didn't turn up well.
Is there something real in this film?
Harrison Ford??
@@eduardodiezperez7112 You mean he wasn't CGI, like the rest of the movie?
So what do you do for a job: I am an animal choreographer
I miss when movies were made like a movies, not like computer generated default crap
they don't make movies like they used to , like white fang with a real dog/wolf , or beethoven with a real dog , now is cgi for everything , i dont like it , it´s not natural
Looks like a kids movie. Like the animals should talk. Not sure how anyone can take it seriously, tbh, especially the actors.
If you get a few millions for the charade, would you care?
It truly amazes me how many people thought Buck was real-like..what? CGI is so obvious. Real life is better than any green screen. Green screen always lacks a certain life to it. Special effects should be kept to touch-ups or fantasy. Christ, even if they used cgi for the more intense scenes that would have been better than what they produced.
For people saying it was to prevent actual animal abuse, another of Jack London’s works comes to mind: White Fang. That was filmed with about fifty real wolves and dogs and a bear. Not a single animal got hurt. I’m talking about the original over 30 years ago. Not even the fish were hurt. And just like the call of the wild, white fang is full of animal abuse and fighting. Despite being old, that movie looks a million times better to me because it is real life.
7:19 "black" dream came true, i see...
The CGI buried the real sense of enjoying the simple and natural things in the cinema.🤦🏻♂️
The cgi made the film possible without hurting animals. Film and photography is mostly about illusion, unless you are making a documentary.
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Bloddy hell.. I thought this movie was real.. Omg.. 😂
I watched the movie a while ago and it was great and the dogs are obviously digital, but it gave me a very enjoyable and somewhat realistic viewing experience ❤
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