Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah was for the guys at ILM a challenge of biblical proportions. In an interview to DGA Quarterly, Aronofsky explained that although most of the times what we see on screen comes out of a computer it doesn’t mean that the job gets easier. He also talked about the animals in the film and how difficult they were to accomplish.
“Increasingly, the images are coming out of a
computer,” says Aronofsky, “but that means you can change anything and have
more control.” However, he added that a
large amount of preparation was required because “[you] have faith that your
collaborators are going to breathe life into what you aren’t photographing. You
have to trust that down the road things are going to come alive.”
The
director said that in order to fight the cliché he had to rethink the animals
on the ark:
“We
had to create an entire animal kingdom,”
He
then added:
“We
basically went through the animal kingdom and pinpointed the body types we
wanted: some pachyderms, some rodents, reptiles, and the bird kingdom. We chose
the species and they were brought to life with different furs and colors. We
didn’t want anything fully recognizable but not completely absurd either.”
Which
meant that this was one of the most complicated jobs in the history of ILM.
“It
was a nice badge of honor,” he smiled. “I don’t think it’s the most incredible
shot, but I think because of all the hair on the animals it was incredibly
complicated for them. They said, ‘We can only render it two or three more times
so make sure those are exactly right because they take so long and are so
complex.’”
Noah
stars Russell Crowe, Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Douglas
Booth, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Durand, Martin Csokas, and Mark
Margolis and opens on March 29th, 2014.
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