‘Together’ Director Explains How that Wild Final Shot Was Made (Without AI)

Since his first appearance in Sundance earlier this year, horror lovers had a new movie for Michael Shanks, togetherOn their radars. Neon chose her outside the festival, and after some trailers and scary marketing, it opened it in theaters at the end of last week with strong results. It is an amazing, exciting and disgusting movie incredibly with the final viewers who will not be forgotten soon. The end was achieved through the traditional methods of visual effects and without a hint of artificial intelligence.

According to this spoiler warning, we are about to explain what is happening at the end togetherSo if you don’t see it and want it, we urge you to look far now.

In the movie Tim and Milli (Dave Franco and Alison Berri) they become with this undesirable power that wants their bodies to become one. How and why is it a strange, mysterious, and enjoyable matter, but in the end, the couple realizes that the only way to defeat this force is to surrender to it. Therefore, we see as their bodies gathered from two to one, and in the last shot of the film, a completely new person, which integrates each of them, is opened the door for the fathers of Miley visitors.

Speaking of the Indiewire movie makers, Shanks explained that both the mixture of the bodies and the new character have been achieved without using artificial intelligence. “The amount of offers that I went to now, and people come to me and say,” Was that artificial intelligence in the end? “It is crazy that people now assume the reason.” As a VFX man, as a person working with all these teams that put a lot of work, it is very frustrated now that people look at something that looks fun or good, and they are [assume] Just a computer you made. It is like, “no, no, no, no, no.”

Instead, the letter “Tillie” was created using makeup and visual effects by GeneVieVie Camilleri. “In the pre -production stage, Jin just went up and took pictures of Dave and Alison and then in Nok, I presented a set of differences that elements of their faces deal with what is necessary to see each of them in that final image,” said Shanks.

Then, a day, the director shot the scene with both actors. “After we shot the scene with Alison, we moved in Dave, with a group of points on his face,” continued. “The general took his jaw and his lips and commented on the bottom [of the face]. It is really a mixture of makeup, and you will not call it CGI, because nothing is created by the computer, but it is composed. “

Return a little from details togetherIt is wild to defend Shanks that his movie did not use artificial intelligence. If he had come out even 3-4 years ago, it will not be an idea. We all assumed that one of them was wearing other clothes or visual effects. In the end, it is a type of two. But the entire conversation changed when we started living in a world where you can put “Dave Franco and Alison Berri as one person” in a program and return something in seconds. Basically, the pillars to the context to do something correctly, work hard in it, and make something unforgettable. Boo to the world to make us forget that the true magic of the filmmaking comes from the touch of man.

together He is now in theaters.

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