Make no mistake: “The Lion King” is an animated movie.
Almost 100 percent.
Only one shot, teased director Jon Favreau ahead of the Hollywood world premiere Tuesday night, was filmed live.
Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel confirmed that it was the first thing they filmed on location in Africa.
And it’s a gorgeous shot — but the whole film is photo-real gorgeous, and made within a digital world.What Favreau and his “Jungle Book” VFX master Rob Legato have achieved with global squadrons of animators from Oscar-winner Mpc Film is an astonishing gamechanger.
As IndieWire reported during production, “The Lion King” marks the first keyframe-animated movie shot on a virtual reality set with a live-action aesthetic.The results are stunning.
Aesthetically, Favreau was able to pull together naturalistic animation of wild animals moving their mouths, with voice actors speaking in English and breaking into song.
This could have gone wrong in so many ways,
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