Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson explains how puppetry, prosthetics, stunts and in-camera tricks brought the film’s Cyclops, Scylla, Circe and Laestrygonian giants to life
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Director Christopher Nolan on the set of his film 'The Odyssey,' Melinda Sue Gordon For Andrew Jackson, the key to making the monsters of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” convincing was often simple: put something real in front of the camera, whether that meant a giant Cyclops hung from cables or Samantha Morton reshaping silicone faces with her hands.
In a pre-recorded conversation with VFX magazine Befores & Afters editor Ian Failes that screened at View Conference in Italy’s Turin, the film’s Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor described how the production blended puppetry, prosthetics, stunts, miniatures and digital effects to create creatures including the Cyclops and Scylla, as well as Circe’s transformations and the film’s giant Laestrygonians.
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