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The Technology Behind The Wild Things
Thursday November 05, 2009

Perhaps you’ve heard of a film by the name of Where the Wild Things Are? Chances are, if you have seen the new film, you asked yourself: How did they get Carol’s (or any of the other character’s) face so emotive? Didn’t they use real humans in costumes for the wild things? Hear director Spike Jonze talk about getting technological with the Wild Things.

It was the painstaking work of 300 artists and tech-wielding specialists, who, in the process of tweaking every frame and every miniscule detail of every image, undertook to create an entirely new way of animating—an ingenious blend of the artistry of traditional, film-based movie-making and the wizardry of newfangled technologies. In the end, Jonze and Co. created some of the most compelling monster-beings in history.

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