“Special detail was put into recreating special details that made the character unique such as his closed off ear piercings, moles, skin blemishes, and ear hair.” “Due to the massive scale of the VLM, we had to drive the skin pores based off of the facial hair stubble groom to give per-pore displacement,” said FuseFX creature supervisor Matt Lefferts. Usually, a scanning session can provide high-resolution textures and accurate geometry data for this kind of task, but for their purposes FuseFX needed to continue building their digital version with further sculpting and texturing, especially for the skin. Woodle was scanned with a mobile setup for a quick generation of data. That then necessitated the making of a digi-double VLM.
So the decision was made to go full cg early on to facilitate the massive environments that needed to be made digitally to sell the scale of the VLM and to ensure the proper perspective and atmosphere.” FuseFX’s Very Large Man (VLM) and digital doubles for other characters. “The most successful live-action shots were the close-ups where depth of field was kept to a minimum, while the wide-angle shots generally speaking did not hold up. But, explains FuseFX visual effects supervisor Chad Wanstreet, one of the issues was that only certain live-action angles were completely convincing with Woodle as the giant.
The initial approach to realizing the VLM, a man as tall as a skyscraper and who wreaks havoc amongst The Tick’s main city, was to do the effect practically by filming the actor (Ryan Woodle) against greenscreen and compositing him into live-action plates.
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