Was Ryan Reynolds even in the Deadpool movie? Not much during those fight scenes, as it turns out—the film’s flashiest moments used a digital facsimile of Deadpool, with Reynolds providing voiceover after the fact, as this Atomic Fiction video reveals. Since Deadpool already exists comfortably in the world of comic books, animation, and video games, I guess it’s not a big surprise that the Deadpool movie had to take some shortcuts. No one can do slow-motion spin stunts and pause mid-twirl to deliver a line to the camera. No one besides Deadpool, that is.
What’s really weird is that even the moment when Deadpool partially removes his mask involved a digitally animated sequence. They didn’t even make Ryan Reynolds put on the costume for that scene, I guess? Or if they did, I guess they decided they could make it look better in animated form. No wonder the movie had to cut the other big fight scene due to budgeting issues—the flashy one that’s shown in the video above includes so many impressive digital additions that it must have taken artists a long time to polish.
Speaking of Deadpool‘s digital stunt doubles, this other video details the special effects considerations that went into animating Colossus—and the five actors that collaborated on bringing his metallic facial features to life.
Did any of these efforts take you out of the movie? I thought Colossus looked great, and although I knew Ryan Reynolds couldn’t possibly have been performing all of those stunts, I had no idea how many of them got “performed” by digital artists rather than flesh-and-blood stunt doubles.
(via io9 and Geek Tyrant)
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