Every little piece of the pipeline had changed in that four years.” So one of the biggest things is the CGI supervisors had to do a lot of scripting to get even to get all these Maya files converted to Katana so that we could even get the lighting back online. Smith said, “I think Justice League was the last show we lit in our old Maya pipeline and before we went to Katana.
So when Weta got the call in mid-2020 to pick up work on Justice League, it wasn’t like they could just dive in. Except that scene, at the time, included DC’s Darkseid, a character who was entirely removed from Whedon’s film but has since made a reemergence in Snyder’s HBO Max release. The ones that did make the movie? Superman’s resurrection, Steppenwolf stealing the Mother Box from Themyscira, and the giant flashback battle between humanity and Steppenwolf. That means they contributed to shots and scenes that made the final movie, and many that did not. None of it works anymore.”īack in 20, Weta had worked on both Snyder’s version as well as Joss Whedon’s theatrical release of Justice League. “When you’re talking about bringing back data that’s four years old, it’s almost like archeology,” Weta visual effects supervisor Kevin Smith told io9. Issues like that, but exponentially more complex, are what faced the team at Weta Digital when they got the call that they’d be one of the VFX houses working on Warner Bros.’s new Justice League. It’s difficult enough to find it buried amongst your things, let alone to make sure it’s still compatible with new versions of the software, that storage is sufficient, etc. Imagine going into a drawer and dusting off an old iPod you want to use. Think about how much digital effects improve in five years. It’s one thing that Snyder and his crew had a film that was first shot in 2016, then reshot by another filmmaker, released, ostensibly put to bed, then resurrected years later. One of the aspects that gets a little lost in that fascinating narrative, though, is the actual nuts and bolts of making it. Without exaggeration, that it exists is a landmark in film history. The history, the controversy, the fans, the result. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is fascinating on almost every level.
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