Amazing Before & After VFX Breakdown - Rocketman
687You might not expect a biopic like Rocketman to demand much in the way of special effects, but the surreal, dream-like song and dance sequences of the film actually involved quite a bit of digital work.
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VFX by Cinesite
Beyond their work demodernizing sections of the film and creating seamless cuts, the team at Cinesite was instrumental in making many of the most striking scenes possible.
During the Crocodile Rock sequence at the Troubadour, some of the crowd was rigged with wires to simulate levitation, but more crowd members had to be digitally added after filming. Cinesite was tasked with removing the rigging from existing crowd members and adding more levitating people behind them.
Dry For Wet
Perhaps the film’s most ambitious sequence was framing the song Rocket Man itself. During the underwater portion, Taron Egerton, playing Elton John, was filmed swimming to the bottom of a 10 foot pool. His younger counterpart, played by Matthew Illesley, was filmed 'dry for wet', and added to the shot later, along with water particulate, bubble effects, and his astronaut helmet. The pool was made to seem much deeper than it actually was with clever editing and spacing.
Dodger's Stadium
The song continues into a scene at Dodger’s Stadium, which sees Elton performing in front of an enormous crowd. The stadium itself was a CGI model, and Egerton’s performance was added to it after the fact. Rather than using a crowd simulation, Cinesite opted to create thousands of individual sprites to fill the seats. They needed to be seen from different angles and with different lighting conditions throughout the scene, as well as interact with bouncing beach balls and other effects, to make the scene feel real.
Houdini
Elton John’s blastoff at the end of the scene made use of Houdini's fluid simulation to create the appearance of rocket exhaust, making for a perfect ending to the dream-like sequence.
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