RETAINING LIVE-ACTION PLATES

A SIGNIFICANT EFFORT WAS MADE TO KEEP ELEMENTS FROM THE LIVE-ACTION PLATES

“They would ask for different areas of the forest to be on fire depending on the shot,” remarks Rouleau. “It’s not like we could say, ‘We’ll just build this portion of the forest and we’ll be set.’ Every shot had a different request for where the fire needed to be. We had to build the whole thing in CG and in some instances, we would keep 95 per cent of the actual forest that they shot and only have a small portion of CG. Then in another shot it would be the opposite. We would have 80 to 85 per cent CG forest on fire and then we kept foreground elements and the actors, but everything else is a replacement. It was so shot by shot that we had to be ready to replace anything at any moment.”