You don't really know how he's going to deal with it until the first time he gets in there and actually does the first facial performance. Those thousands of tracking points were then mapped to the digitally-created face of the Beast, transferring the nuances of Stevens' performance to the outlandish creature. Some actors really struggle because you're trying to give this emotive performance, but you're sitting in this rig that's capturing your face and you can't really move your head too much. He's seated, he can move around a bit, but not much. Instead, after shooting a scene on set with the other actors, he would go into a studio at a later date to record the second part of his performance.ĭH: We used a custom rig that has 25 cameras all filming Dan's face, tracking thousands and thousands of points on his face. But it was decided that Stevens and co-star Emma Watson should be able to see each clearly in order to interact more realistically, so Stevens didn't wear a head-mounted camera. Often actors wearing motion capture suits wear camera rigs on their heads and have tracking points marked on their faces too.
That's a lot of things to get right in one shot if you want to have that one shot look believable and not take you out of the movie. And at the same time we're driving off this talking actor, trying to get this one-to-one transfer of the actor's face onto the character. He's got this long hairstyle that's flowing back down onto this cloak, and onto his body hair.
Each of them have hair and threads and stuff on top of them, that are riding on his body and on his hair. He's wearing a cloak which is made up of hundreds of different shredded pieces of material and fabric. This character is covered in body fur and is wearing multiple layers of clothing riding on top of the body fur. The actor and the director worked on his performance in a way that would invoke the original, and we matched the actor's performance.ĭigital Domain's main task was creating the character of the Beast, a digital creation based on a performance by " Downton Abbey" star Dan Stevens.ĭH: The Beast definitely was one of the most technically challenging characters we've ever had to do. Darren Hendler: We didn't go in thinking we were going to animate this Beast to match the original.
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