![]() Well, Rocket in the other films had them more embedded into the skin, and with the groom and the dark environment, it made them relatively hard to see. But, we changed them a little.Īt one point, I was watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with my son and one of the characters has these big metal dental prosthetics which protrude out. We’ve seen them before in the shower scene in the first Guardians. Rocket has these metal or mechanical implants. Of course, then there was a lot of work on each different different sizes, finessing all the fine details, varying the fur coloration and so forth. It was of course just a starting point, but then we got to work on all the different iterations.Īnd so there was so much in his face, in his body, in his anatomy that this blend shape, which was really A to B, nothing crazy about it, that we said, “Well, that’s a starting point.” And that was really the starting point of all the different sizes. It would go from a character on all fours that didn’t have shoulders to one where the shoulders were developing, to slowly extending up to the point where he becomes adult Rocket. You really saw Rocket becoming more and more adult and the features we’re now so familiar with developing. I didn’t think this would work at all, but weirdly enough it gave us a lot more than expected. Then we did a screengrab at each correct height that Marvel wanted. So we just said, ‘Let’s blendshape Rocket runt to Rocket adult and see what it does…’. We even got a chart from Marvel that showed us the different heights. There was Rocket runt, Rocket baby one, Rocket baby two, Rocket baby three, Rocket adolescent and Rocket adult. Marvel had come up with the different variations. Then we thought, well, why don’t we use that blendshape methodology to craft the different ages of Rocket that we needed? It’s a real morph we had to do, and to do that, we had to blendshape between the models. The opening shot of the movie is actually a 3D morph between runt Rocket and adult Rocket. ‘Let’s blendshape Rocket runt to Rocket adult and see what it does’ We made the groom of runt Rocket brighter, because we found that raccoons go darker the older they get. Then, to make sure there was a link with the Rocket we all know, we paid attention to his color palette and the markings that only Rocket has. Now we really, really completely matched a real raccoon runt. So we completely threw that in the bin and started again with real raccoons and real runts. It was looking really, really cute, but cute to the point that he didn’t look real. We were doing one-toone comparison with this picture. So, working with Stephane Ceretti, we started with baby Rocket, or runt Rocket as we called him, and we modeled and groomed that first. Maybe if we have the baby, then there’d be a way to do all the in-betweens. We started there, and we thought, well, we have the adult Rocket already. That was his very first email to Framestore. Alexis Wajsbrot: James Gunn had this picture of a very, very cute raccoon, which I think was Photoshopped because the eyes were way too big. ![]()
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