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Coming up

we take flight into the magical world of Avatar

actress Zoe Saldana gives us a sneak peek into her life

and we give you a little makeover

using digital botox

But first... let's check out the movies that thrived with a whole lot of CGI

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When it comes to making movies, filmmakers can’t do without blue or green screens anymore

Need a breathtaking landscape?

Just shoot against a green background and fill it in during post production

Sometimes the usage of the screens is done better than others though

so here’s our top 3 of motion pictures with a lot of green screens, that are done to perfection

We kick things off with the ‘Avengers’ franchise

With production budgets in the hundreds of millions, the films are massive spectacles

And as they feature an abundance of superheroes, aliens, futuristic technology, stunts and explosions

the installments rely heavily on CGI

Still, it’s done so well, audiences kinda know it’s all computer generated

but forget about it after watching them for 5 minutes

For ‘Infinity War’ even the villain isn’t really there

it’s a motion captured version of actor Josh Brolin being evil against mostly green screen backdrops

Even though Thanos is largely a CG creation

because he's so large. His dimensions are beyond human scale

we were able to work very closely with our visual effects team and use really cutting edge technology

to map the actual performance of Josh Brolin as this big character in a way I think nobody has ever seen done before

And you know, You read everything that is going on a performance level, in his face, in his physicality

in the character of Thanos, is pretty remarkable

For our runner up we chose ‘300’

Despite the entire picture being set outdoors

almost all of it was shot in a studio, featuring pretty much nothing but blue screens

Not everything looks fully realistic

adding to a very cool comic book like atmosphere

It took some time for lead star Gerard Butler to get used to though

If I'm being positive about it, because trust me, I didn't always think this

but it actually helps you focus on what is going on

Because??? around you, you're not bothered by the kind of further away environment

This is where we hold up

This is where we fight.

This is where they die

And our winner is

the ‘Sin City’ series!

Featuring nothing but green screen, the cast had no idea what they were shooting at all

Instead they had to rely on a handful of props and some pictures from the storybook by directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

The final result is one hell of a movie, with a decent sequel

Both of them look like comic books come to life without them being animated feats

A highly original idea, for which the cast deserves a lot of praise.

It's not even that it's more complex, it's just not filled in

you know It's so in in post-production that you have an idea

Robert is telling you and Frank is telling you

You can see the book right there

Frank has the book open and Robert is pointing out what shot he is going to do

so you could see where it's originated from

But it's all left to the imagination. So really when you see the movie, you're watching the movie so freshly

you don't.. you're so piecing. I mean I did scenes with Nicke and Nicke wasn't there

Green screens are used in about every movie

Even for those with no fantastical worlds, simple things like urban backgrounds are all CGI these days

So becoming a successful actor requires a strong imagination

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This classic movie grossed billions at the box office and once held the title of the most successful picture in the world

It won several awards for it's amazing cinematography and visual effects among others at the Oscars

Let’s go down memory lane with the iconic 'Avatar

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Actress Zoe Saldana is one of the most badass females in the action world

and has provided her talents for movies such as 'Avatar', which we just looked at

Saldana has worked on other major franchises

that use green screen and CGI like 'Guardians of the galaxy' and 'Star Trek'

Let’s get to know more about Zoe Saldana

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Creating realistic looking environments, monsters, creatures and buildings

is a true art form and a multi-million Dollar industry on its own

We get more insight on how it was done on the World War II movie 'Allied' by visual effects supervisor Kevin Baillie

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The World War II movie ‘Allied’ used a surprisingly high amount of CGI when making the film

It was directed by Robert Zemeckis

and stars Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt as two spies who fight Nazis together and fall in love

Visual effects supervisor Kevin Baillie is the guy who made it all come to life

There’s really two needs for why we have to do a lot of the digital work on this film

One is that it’s set in the nineteen forties

so ‘Casablanca’ looks nothing like what it did back in the nineteen forties

when it was kind of a haven for the playboys and rich people of the day

And also London is way more modern now,

and back then it was being constantly bombed by the Germans as well

So it was really kind of a wartorn grainy gritty place

So we have to recreate that all digitally because it doesn’t exist anymore

The other reason for shooting a lot of stuff digitally

is because Robert Zemeckis loves having control over what he’s shooting

And When you’re shooting outside

you have to really subject yourself to what the lighting is doing, what the weather is doing

It’s always raining when you need it to not be and vice versa

So to be inside on stage allows you to have control over all of that

The downside of shooting on stage is that there’s not a lot of space

So we basically have to build partial sets,

sets for actors to interact with

and surround it with blue screen to create the world around them later

And we get to pick and choose from all the different locations we surveyed and photographed

and create essentially a composite of the perfect rooftop surrounds

The visual effects department is actually

is actually… if you look inside the visual effects process

it’s not just a bunch of computer programmers

it’s actually painters and modellers and sculptures and lighters and every department that exists in a production

real production

exists in the visual effects process they’re just called something different

So in a way we take the torch from all different departments and carry it forward into post production

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Coming up on Planet Action

we find out if real sets are better than digital ones

and we hang out with superstar Benedict Cumberbatch

But first... get ready for some CGI botox to get you looking ten years younger

well, on screen at least

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What may seem like a dream to many celebrities out there is actually a reality in the world of movies

plastic surgery with the click of a mouse!

Special effects can shave off, or add, years to an actor's face

or even recast a whole role after a movie's been shot

Probably the best and most extreme example of de-ageing in a film

is 2008's 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

in which Brad Pitt plays a man who ages backwards

It’s a very complicated hybrid of using video game technology and CG animation technologies and we sort of put it all together

And you know, Because we are such social creatures we’re so used to looking at other human faces

and so I think all those little tiny behavioural indicators are as important as the words coming out of somebody’s mouth

So to be able to take something that’s very specific and a behavioural thumbprint from one actor and apply it to CG, that was the important thing

that was the important thing. Because that’s what made it

that’s not what made it Brad Pitt, but that’s what made it Benjamin

You'll probably remember the tragic death of actor Paul Walker,

right in the middle of making the 7th flick in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise

Paul had only filmed about 65% of his scenes

and the rest was completed by placing a computer generated image of Paul's face on the bodies of his brothers

Cody and Caleb

We had to finish this film, you know

There was no way we were not going to finish this movie

We had to finish this movie for Paul

It was so important for us to finish this film

and to really honour his legacy

To honour the great guy that he is and to

and let this be the last movie that he makes

And so we wanted the fans out there to get the opportunity to say goodbye to him one last time

These examples prove that we've come a long long way

Without our even noticing it, actors are regularly being retouched

bags under their eyes, a zit that needs to be removed, or even cellulitis

it's all cleared up with a click of the mouse

Instead of forcing actor Jack O'Connell to starve himself to death in Angelina Jolie's drama 'Unbroken

he was made to look thinner digitally

When Claire Danes was pregnant during the filming of the hit show 'Homeland

her face was pasted onto a skinny body double

While actors of course still have to be committed to a project

more and more often they don't have to go that extra mile anymore

In 2015's boxing drama 'Southpaw', in that famous slo-mo shot

it's not Jake Gyllenhaal's face that's being knocked to pieces

it's animated skin

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This British actor is no stranger to working with the Green screens or CGI

as a couple of the movies he's featured in

like 'Doctor Strange' and 'The Hobbit' have used this technology to the max

His name is Benedict Cumberbatch and his star power is unstoppable

See if his British wit gets the best of you

up next

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Benedict Cumberbatch

the British actor with the unusual and very posh sounding name

has managed to become a world-wide star and an unlikely sex symbol

Yeah, very flattered. That's great.

I'm on a bit of a roller coaster

and it's fun to try and own it and have moments of really enjoying it

Both of his parents were actors

and the young Benedict began performing at just twelve years old

The rising star began to come to international attention in 2007's 'Atonement

opposite his good friend Keira Knightley

directed by the one and only Steven Spielberg

He is a master. And so you do stand slightly in awe of his work, and being in his company.

But he makes you feel so much a part of it, truly, artistically a part of what he's trying to create

Benedict, meanwhile, had also landed a part on the small screen that would prove to be the one that kicked his career into high gear

as the world's most famous detective

Mr. Sherlock Holmes

The BBC series became so successful and brought the slim thespian such sudden fame that it became difficult to shoot scenes outside

My role as an actor that day was to play Sherlock Holmes

But there happened to be countless paparazzi

paparazzi that you know, are shooting every motion picture trying to get a shot of me looking stupid

you know, putting a bit of food in my mouth, or joking around with a colleague

or speaking to the legion of fans which have turned up to watch us on the street

which is rather lovely, but it's a rather heightened situation to be in

The year 2013 would prove to be nothing less than huge for Cumberbatch

when he played the misunderstood
villain Khan in 'Star Trek Into Darkness

This is a huge film to be in

So it's a great kind of step up, I guess. And a lovely, an amazing sort of shop window, or exposure

Especially since it's such a complex and well-drawn character

That same year also saw the versatile actor in a trio of artistic pictures

including the family drama 'August: Osage County

the racial epic '12 Years a Slave

and the politically charged thriller 'The Fifth Estate

When they're films that are this extraordinary and important

it's naught to do with my schedule

I'm just, I'm an actor in projects that I'm very proud to be a part of

And in 2014 he earned his first real Oscars buzz for his performance as British math genius Alan Turing,

who helped break Nazi codes during World War II, in 'The Imitation Game

If we do anything right with this film

it is to bring Alan to a broader audience

to people who haven't known him in all his complexity and brilliance before

But the star is never one to rest on his laurels

and he has continued joining as wide a variety of projects as possible

from the crime drama ‘Black Mass

to spoofing the fashion world in the comedy ‘Zoolander 2

followed by becoming a big screen superhero with 2016’s ‘Doctor Strange

It’s got a great cast of many nationalities

and it is a story that is, well, embraces a huge body of the world

and also at the same time

it’s about a reality that we all share. There’s a sort of common, universal, human sort of strength to the story

but also to the sort of purpose of this character coming into our lives

so yeah, I think it will resonate with a lot of people. And I just think, you know

people crave something new and different

and I think the visuals and the trip of this film, just the excitement viscerally of what it’s gonna be like watching it is gonna be something for everyone, really

He reprised the role in 2017 for ‘Thor: Ragnarok’

then in 2018, he joined the rest of the Avengers for their ‘Infinity War

This is such a fan-driven enterprise, and franchise

a fan-chise you could call it. That’s a terrible pun

And that same year he put his distinctive voice to work

And that same year he put his distinctive voice to work

I used to be the class show off at school and try and make people laugh

end of term skits by doing impressions and silly voices

so all of that comes into good use when you’re playing The Grinch

Yes, the hits just keep rolling in for the ever popular Benedict Cumberbatch

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While we've mostly been looking at digital set in this episode

they're of course not mandatory

Some filmmaker still prefer the real deal

Let's check out the pros and cons

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Making movies is an ever-changing, always evolving art

thanks to the rapidly advancing technologies that make their way into the production processes

Like computer generated imagery

or for short: CGI

When it comes to CGI it’s always tempting to say that there are only 2 types of movie-makers

those who love to work with it and those who do not.

This however is far from the truth

Between those 2 extremes we find that the people in the director’s seat are really not so divided about the subject

Every director has his own reasons when shooting a film to use real sets or not

And surprisingly, for Christopher Nolan, who’s well known for his preference for real sets

the reason is often quite simple

“I didn't want to use green screen because

it is really boring to shoot, honestly

You turn up, it's a depressing day we have shoot green screen

What's really fun is to come to one of these sets we built that felt more like simulator rides than sets

So the actors could actually look out the windows, see the real views

We could just really shoot what we were doing in the whole sequence almost like a documentary

It's far more fun frankly, and I think that hopefully the feeling of reality seeps into what the film is

If you see the director as a storyteller

then his most important job is to evoke a certain emotion from the audience

To make the audience feel that what they see is real

Sometimes they watch Chris's films, with like Batman the stunts in it

they don't understand why they like them better than other stunt films

And the reason is, is that the stunts are real, and the other stunts are CGI

And they don't quite know the difference technically. They just know the feeling

And that's what you get with a Chris Nolan film

Contrary to popular opinion, Christopher Nolan does not hate CGI

He simply believes in using CGI sparingly and with one goal

to enhance visual effects already grounded in reality

When asked what the main reason is why he prefers the use of practical effects over CGI

the key element of Nolan’s answer seems to be, simply, emotion

It's about emotion. It's about really giving the audience a great experience

And we choose the format that could really envelop the audience and make them feel like they've gone on an incredible journey

The emotion of the actors during the shooting of the scenes transfers to the audience

And the more realistic the set, the easier for the actor it is to get immersed in the story and in their part

For Tom Hiddleston, for example

it was an absolute joy to work with Guillermo del Toro on the very real set of Crimson Peak

Green screen is not inferior to real sets

It’s almost a completely different ball-game

And it brings something new to filmmaking

allowing directors to do things that have never been done before

When working on the set of ‘Sin City

A Dame to Kill For

which is one of the most heavily CGI-ed movies ever made

Robert Rodriguez saw only advantages

Well, I mean for me, it's a great playground

To go in and do the kind of movie that I always wanted to do, which is a film noir,

but in a very new way. In a way that people feel like it's brand new

That doesn't feel like something from the fifties

Nowadays it’s practically impossible to tell real moments and green screen scenes apart

It’s clear we’ve reached the coming of the age of CGI

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