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“The Golden Compass,”
Two of the lead actors in New Line Cinema and writer-director Christopher Weitz’s film “The Golden Compass,” which is based on the first book in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, are armored warrior bears with some human characteristics: They have opposable thumbs, and like many of the animals in this fantasy film, they talk.The Golden Compass” has around 1100 visual effects shots supervised by Mike Fink and created by six facilities, and as with most of the animals in the film, artists and animators created the remarkable bears using computer graphics. In one dramatic scene, the two warrior bears fight to the death.In this universe, everyone has a daemon, a visible representation of his or her spirit in the form of an animal, and the story centers on an attempt by an evil authority named the Magisterium, which represents thought control, to separate daemons from their people, and thus remove their free will.The Magisterium begins its experiment with children. Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) represents the Magisterium.
..........................................................................................................................................................................Behind the scenes
Framestore CFC started by working in Maya from models based on maquettes from the production art department, and then developed the rigging for walk and run cycles for all the bears – Iorek, Ragnar his nemesis, and around 120 guard bears. In addition to modeling, animating and lighting in Maya, the studio also uses boujou for camera tracking and match moving, renders with Renderman using Liquid to generate RIB files, and composites primarily with Shake, but with an occasional assist from Inferno.Both bears had the same rig, although Ragnar stands 12.5 feet tall and Iorek 11.5, and similar models based on a hybrid between a polar bear and a grizzly. “The particular problem with this rig is that the bears are quadrapeds, but they can stand on two legs,” says Einarsson. “Iorek walks on his hands, but these bears have opposable thumbs like human hands.”
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