No motion capture. No green screen. Just actors talking to each other in front of a camera. For Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman,' the task of de-aging Robert De Niro involved cutting-edge CGI and countless hours of collaborative work. The technical advances are one more step in an uncertain road to…
But for “The Irishman,” Helman and his team needed to figure out a way to de-age De Niro, as well as costars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci without resorting to such elaborate and obtrusive performance-capture tech.“When I first met Bob De Niro, he said, ‘There’s no way we’re going to wear markers on our face or helmets with little cameras in front of us or gray pajamas,’ ” Helman says.
It was delicate, painstaking work, as much art as science, requiring a deep understanding of how the subtlest emotions are conveyed down to the way vibrations move through the face and neck when speaking. The difference between, say, a smile and a wince could be a matter of just a handful of pixels.“Performances are a complex way of communicating, and we were not going to serve the story if we just painted on top of them,” Helman says.
“You tell the passage of time with clothing,” says Powell, who has earned 14 Oscar nominations and three wins, most recently for last year’s “The Favourite.” “The gangsters in this film were a lot less flashy and ostentatious than in other movies Marty has done. That was the main brief, especially for Frank Sheeran, who has to be under the radar. A lot of it for him was about blending in and not standing out too much.
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