What Outlander REALLY Looks Like Without CGI & VFX | OSSA Movies

What was the secret behind filming the bison and lobster attacks? Were the worms and the snake real and

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and who would look strikingly different without visual manipulation? Hello, I'm happy, are you ready to remove the layers of visual effects? Surely yes, there are three boats. Stranded on dry land in season three, Jamie and Claire took the Artemis to the Caribbean to save young Ian from a pirate ship, but then their rescue mission hit a snag when Clow was captured by another ship, the Porpoise in the show, the dramatic sea voyages and All the Frightening Storms seemed real enough, but in reality the cast and crew were filming on completely dry land, with no water in sight for miles, of course, as a fan of the

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and series, you already knew they couldn't just close the valve and listen on a boat.

In the middle of the Indian Ocean it's still quite impressive and ironic to know that all the action took place at the Cape Town studios in South Africa. It's ironic since the country was experiencing a severe drought at the time of filming, so the ships were parked on dry land the entire time. I would say they are parked because these babies have wheels so they can be moved around to get the best camera angles knowing that, how did the actors recreate the look of teetering on the rough but non-existent waves? Actually, there is a secret to that. this boat could sail on water, it will go on land, it has a hydraulic gimbal, yes, the spaces under and above the deck of the Artemis are mounted on a gimbal with hydraulics underneath, which gives the impression of being at sea.

See for yourself. Make everyone gimble please yes everyone, can everyone gimble on that side? Roberts said we would have to stop because there are usually 40 to 50 people on the boat and people get seasick. I got seasick even when we were testing on the Artemis, which is actually anywhere from 10 degrees to a choppy 10 degrees, so even though the actors could move around and get sick to their core, a big element was missing the ocean. real, that's why huge green screens flanked Artemis, the blue and green screen visuals were

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sold the ocean voyages. We had 14 to 15 cranes every day.

It was crazy. Roberts told Ew while simulating surface water and crashing waves. The water rushing onto the deck was real. A combination of wind and rain machines were used over the distance. we exceed all our wind machines, we have the poor person on the other side, we have a Caribbean village there, what I enjoyed the most was that we rehearsed it when the actors were dry and then they had to get wet, so my favorite part of The Day was when I was able to soak them completely. I know they secretly loved it. They sure did.

It looked hot. The waves can be fake, but Sam learned that they can feel real enough to perform a trick where he was supposed to hit a wave. and he threw it over the other side of the boat, tried to land on soft bags, instead he discovered they weren't soft at all, but I had a lot of fun in the boats, especially with the rigging going up to the top. Say it's quite fun, these boats are so incredible, so realistic, they transport you as soon as you get on one and the sails open, you feel like it has a life of its own.

On another note, how many rays do you think had to be added? by the cgi team, to be honest, not many, after waiting a long time, they finally had a great stormy day with some real hits. Roberts was lucky enough to have three cameras set up and ready while most of the filming took place in the sagebrush where the pirate ship was located. I also put it to good use. Roberts explained that we never actually filmed that, but we used it as a model for the visual effects when Jamie and Claire saw this young Ian being carried off the coast by pirates.

The next time you see that scene, you'll remember what it is. All thanks to the magic of running, crawling, crawling CGI creatures, season five tackled the bison attack from Diana Gabaldon's novel The Burning Cross, the women worked together as a team to protect Jemmy, even to lizzie, while she didn't go to grab jemmy immediately. He went and stood between the bison and him, it was probably a good thing he didn't move too fast or the bison could have attacked in any case, if you assumed the bison wasn't real you'd be right, the scene wasn't easy to film, as that the real bison needed to be projected green in the shot, which also meant the cast would need something to look at now.

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funny is that a member of the crew became the line of sight, in fact the lucky person had to dress up as the bison that we put on one of our crew members, we covered them with a big coat of buffalo skin and we made them walk along the buffalo path. Sophie, who had to act with our buffalo standing up, which is always hard to do, so as not to laugh, but she did it. Great job, I'm sure this got a lot of laughs, but wait, there was another scene from season five that had fans wondering how it was filmed in Better Get Married Than Burn Roger and Bree had to fight off a plague of Lobsters at Fraser's Ridge Executive".

Producer Roberts put an end to the mystery. We used live locusts and visual effects to create the swarm. Same with smoke. Some of that was created by our special effects team and then enhanced with visual effects. The actors are all real while we are on stage. The topic of live animals, have you also wondered if those maggots used by Claire to treat Jaime's wound were real? In this case, they weren't actually CGI. Here Sam had to let them crawl all over his leg. He remembered that they made a lot of noise and demanded not to do it.

I mentioned quick, so obviously I had this prosthetic on and you can't see where it ends so I just waited for them to get behind the edge and get under it. He was trying to stay in the scene too and he's nice. How difficult is it when you have thousands of little worms carrying around trying to get into every corner, are you embarrassing yourself? The cat was fascinated by the creatures, why of course he didn't need them to crawl on her, right? I just used cgi and saved Sam the agony of dealing with his creepy co-stars, probably, but since the cgi in previous seasons wasn't always the most realistic thing this boat scene refers to, maybe some sacrifice it was worth it, and apparently this the snake was as real as worms according to producer tony graffia the five foot python was called scar and was made of flesh and blood they both said there is a scene where the scar slithers across my character I had my skirts around me and the snakes were always trying to find a little dark crevice to get into.

He kept trying to get in and hide. I thought he was being very calm with the snake, but suddenly I thought, "Okay, get him out of here." Would you have been calm and collected if the scar was slipping? you, who's my favorite co-star, Scar or Sam Hewin, well I'd have to say Scar, really, you know, Scar doesn't respond, Scar doesn't eat my snacks, even though he could eat me and the horrors didn't stop there for the cats. , according to. for graffia the ants were also real although they didn't have that many the rest were multiplied by visual effects but most of what we do is real the beetles in the jar were real we always try it in

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if something can be done practically we do it practically, that's why we love this show so much, everyone is always dedicated to offering only the best, from landscapes to legs, cool visuals with its rolling highlands and castles.

It's hard to believe that Outlander was actually filmed in the 21st century, season 1 in the 18th century. The realism is due to the excellent work of visual effects supervisor Jonathan Privet and the artists at Double Negative from the United Kingdom. According to Privet, keeping it real was one of the show's producers' first mandates. Well, it turns out Double Negative had their work cut out for them. When the Season 1 finale aired, the studio had completed just under 700 visual effects shots—if you were wondering, that's a lot in real life. The dune castle is the location used for the liach castle, while the castle is well preserved, the experts had to make several changes digitally to achieve this.

They look like medieval ruins from 1945. Privet added that since the show was filmed in Scotland, a lot of the work involved removing anything that was out of place in time and replacing it with other elements such as the Royal Mile as simply a For example, the same applies to the representation of the natural landscapes of Scotland. Privet says there is a lot of architectural and environmental work in Outlander, contrary to popular belief. Part of Scotland is actually quite flat, so we added the stunning highlands. However, Privet noted that one of the largest. The challenges turned out to be character-based.

Remember Callum Mackenzie played by Gary Lewis, since the character suffered from a syndrome that deformed and curved his legs, experts had to replace the actor's legs with digital limbs. Lewis wore special socks that could be manipulated so that he looked bent, he also had shoes with wedges to help create Callum's unique gait. Initially, the team planned to replace just Gary's lower legs and thought they would then combine his lower and upper legs, but that turned out to be a bit impossible. and it was very difficult to do with a moving camera and a moving person, so they discovered a better solution.

In the end, we replaced all of his legs from above. He was wearing shorts, so they had to be simulated with fabric. He was real. challenge, but he ended up being an amazing character because of the legs, a lot of work thanks for seeing what effects impressed you the most. How are you doing in the midst of the drought? Let us know in the comments and you'll know the workout is still amazing.