VFX Suite offers a powerful toolkit for realistic visual effects composites in After Effects. She did an incredible amount of intense physical training to be fit for working on this because she was spending - I don’t know how many hours a day, but several hours a day - almost supporting herself through her stomach muscles in different positions. Replacing her body, putting her tail on, obviously, creating the animation that went with her physical movement, was so much easier when we actually had a believable performance in the first place from her. “It really was her performance that sold the fact that she was a mermaid. He adds that not only was Bailey “delivering the most amazing performance and singing as well, within these rigs, but she was giving a performance and a believability.” … But we would then replace everything apart from the faces and the hands with digital bodies, which would allow us to then translate the movement through their bodies to make it look like they were really propelling themselves through the water.”

“We used their faces for real, which allowed them to deliver lines of dialogue to emote, to give us the performance. You’ve gotta be fixed from a certain point,” he explains. “If you are held in a rig, there’s no way you can move your body. To capture the performances of Bailey and other actors playing aquatic characters, “it really seemed that the principle for this would be to put actors on rigs that could be moved around spatially on the floor, using stunt people to actually push the rigs and also to introduce dance people who could help puppeteer the actors so they could actually move in a way that gave us essentially the movement of their head. Box Office: 'The Little Mermaid' Swims to $118.6M Memorial Day Debut

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