CGSociety talks CGI and wolves

December 24, 2009 Posted by Lindsay in New Moon,Werewolves

CGSociety has a new feature in which they take a deeper look in how the CGI wolves were created for The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Click through to read!

In Lucerne Valley, there is a sanctuary called Wolf Mountain where a dedicated group is trying to save wolves from extinction. This is where the Tippett artists traveled to spend personal time with the wolves, many tame enough to be approached and touched by strangers. There the artist could observe behaviors, pack interactions, hierarchy behaviors, and movement, and “closely examine the fur and its different lengths over the body, the coloring variations and markings, as well as the structure of the face, eyes, teeth and so on.”

The trip was extremely fruitful, but Phil Tippett, with his honed eye for perfection, added a second method to study fur under different controlled lighting and wind. “We had a bunch of photographs of wolves that we were studying but Phil was insisting that we take it to the next level and have something to touch, walk around, and actually do your own,” explained Fredenburg. This resulted in the creation of what became affectionately known as the “Frankenwolf”.

Tippett bought wolf pelts and cut them up with an Exacta knife and pasted it onto a taxidermy blank “so that we could do a lighting lab in two conditions? controlled lighting on our stage where we could shine very specific lights and look at how the fur responded, then we took it outside on an overcast day, which was perfect for New Moon. We came up with strategies for how to artistically make the wolves look better in flat lighting, which is what we were dealing with and is a very difficult lighting situation.”

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