Pirates Of The Caribbean’s VFX Wizards Reveal How They Brought Skeleton Ghost Sharks To Life

Pirates Of The Caribbean’s VFX Wizards Reveal How They Brought Skeleton Ghost Sharks To Life

Video: With a team of over 700 visual effects artists and other on-set crew working in studios around the world, the Moving Picture Company produced 1200 shots for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, including bringing to life – or afterlife – ghostly great white sharks.

GIF: YouTube

MPC was just one of over 14 different visual effects and post-production studios that helped create many of the movie’s characters, including Captain Salazar and his crew, who were cursed to spend an eternity perpetually drowning and burning as they sought out revenge on Jack Sparrow.

Pirates Of The Caribbean’s VFX Wizards Reveal How They Brought Skeleton Ghost Sharks To Life
GIF: YouTube

GIF: YouTube

At this point, the post-production teams working on blockbuster movies are outgrowing the on-set personnel needed to actually shoot these films. It’s inevitable that one day, as computer graphics and visual effects creep closer and closer to recreating reality, these before and after breakdowns showing the transformation of actors and performers simply won’t exist any more. We’ll miss them.

Take a look at the whole impressive video:

[YouTube via Art of VFX]


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