Jungle Book Without VFX Looks Funny - VFX Breakdown

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The Jungle Book is another addition to an ever-growing list of movies that are live-action remakes of Disney classics. The Lion King, Dumbo, Cinderella, Maleficent, the Lady and the tramp, the list goes on and on and looks to continue that way with Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and The Little Mermaid all being released in the not so distant future.

Some people really enjoy the films but others feel that originals should be left as they are and that the remakes are sacrilege. Whatever your point of view may be, these live-action remakes of old animated Disney movie are a fantastic opportunity for VFX companies to push themselves and their technology, and if nothing more, they've shown us that MPC can make some pretty awesome CG animals!

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Previsualization.
The Jungle Book wasn't like your average movie where you have live-action plates to which you have to add CG elements.
In this film, you had CG plates to which you had to add a live-action element, this meant that the pre-vis stage of the filmmaking process in this movie was perhaps the most important.

Digital Domain supplied the motion capture system on the set and the low-res digital environments developed in pre-vis.
These low-res environments allow the team to identify where the live-action was going to take place within the digital environment so they could build a small physical set with exactly the same shape, scale, and inclination as the digital one.
Then by using Digital domains "Simulcam" technology they could see a real-time bluescreen composite of what they were shooting within their digital environment.

Another thing that had to be carefully planned in Pre-vis was the lighting of the bluescreens sets.
These sets had to be lit in such a way as not to conflict with the lighting they intended for their digital environment.
For example, if Mowgli was running through a forest he would be lit by the sunlight filtered through the leaves above him, if Mowgli was strongly lit on the bluescreen set it would be a lot harder to add all these different shadows made by the leaves in Post and so they used blue leaves to cast those shadows on Mowgli on their bluescreen set.
Digi Animals.
For the overall design of the Jungle Book animals, they didn't reference the 1967 animated film, instead they referenced real animals.
First, they studied the anatomy of the creature they wanted to build, and then they would create a skeleton based on its bone structure that the animators could move around in a realistic way.
Next, they would build the animal's muscle structure and the skin on top.
The facial rigging was the most complicated because these animals had to be able to talk realistically without becoming too human or unrealistic.
In order to accomplish this MPC began by mapping out facial muscles that the animals have and making sure that they could yawn and snarl and do everything the real animal could.
Next, they concentrated on doing mouth shapes for speaking, this meant adding additional "more human" muscles in order to give the animals more control over their lip movements.
For the hair and fur, MPC had been working on their own fur grooming tools for a long time, and for The Jungle Book they used "Furtility".

This tool allowed a lot of variation and complexity for the length of hairs, their direction and width, and how they clump and matt together.

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