Hollywood’s visual effects crisis
A lot of what this article talks about rings true in a presentation I watched recently by the team at Weta Digital which did the VFX for The Batman<p>They talked about, among other things, how they had to:<p>- digitally replace the stunt man&#x27;s face in many of the action shots because his jawline was too dissimilar to Robert Pattinson&#x27;s.<p>- digitally modify a hand because a prop gun misfired in a shot<p>- enhance the fight scenes to look more visceral and violent<p>- add rain and rain spatter to the car chase (the parts that weren&#x27;t already fully digital)<p>I&#x27;m no filmmaker but I felt many of those things could have been done without VFX. Hire a stunt man that looks more like RP, reshoot the scene with the broken prop, forget about rain and&#x2F;or tone down the epic action set piece, etc.<p>Instead it seemed like it all just came to rest on the shoulders of the VFX artists.