3D World  |  April 2019
ALITA BATTLE ANGEL
The holy grail of visual effects is the creation of a living, breathing digital human. In Alita: Battle Angel, from director Robert Rodriguez, Weta Digital stakes its claim as one of the few studios capable of pulling off such a character. To do so, artists at the studio took performance capture by actress Rosa Salazar – who wore a fullbody capture suit and head-cam, and translated that into the CG avatar Alita, a humanoid cyborg making her way in a post-apocalyptic world. Central to the believability of Alita was her face, an area of digital characters that Weta Digital has perfected over many characters in several productions, from Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit films, to the Planet Of The Apes primates. Here’s how they used the latest tools and techniques to make this newest CG character possible.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in 3D World April 2019.