![]() ![]() ![]() The animation was done by Important Looking Pirates. ![]() Our empathy for the robotic hosts grows throughout the season when we glimpse the inner workings of the conflicted Dolores in “The Bicameral Mind,” it makes no difference that she looks like a machine. In the re-imagined, futuristic, adult theme park from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, humanity is brutal and the robots are benevolent. “And we had to get the timing just right. Because we noticed in our tests that if we missed the timing, we couldn’t see a thing… the camera went too fast and the drawers wouldn’t be open yet or we’d miss it.” “Westworld” “In the end, it had to be this active prep to get these things ready - a very dangerous situation - with these 65 cannons that could tear you apart,” said VFX supervisor John Ross. So they had no idea what it would look like. The Bolt operator had to capture it within a thousandth of a second, and they only had one take to get it right for each angle. They used air cannons to blow up all of the objects in the kitchen cabinets and drawers, (lots of spaghetti, Pringles, and knives) and shot it in slow-mo at 1,000 fps using a Panaflex camera and a motion-control Bolt rig. To pull off the bravura sequence from the pilot, the VFX team went mostly practical. Thus, when he inadvertently makes the psychiatric hospital’s kitchen explode through telekinesis, it’s total chaos. In Noah Hawley’s brilliant psychological deconstruction of a Marvel superhero, David Haller (Dan Stevens) has no idea that he possesses mutant superpowers. ![]()
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