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Peter Jackson’s VFX company WETA Digital have detailed how they painstakingly recreated the late Paul Walker for Fast And Furious 7, admitting that it was ‘barely possible’.
Paul sadly died in November 2013 midway through filming of the seventh film in the franchise and Joe Letteri, the visual effects supervisor, said the company had to use previous footage to create a digital actor.
Due to the technology required it never could have been accomplished five years ago.
‘It was barely possible last year when we did it,’ Joe explained. ‘We had to complete a performance – what Paul Walker would have done if he’d been able to continue.’
This meant that the team had to use old footage of Paul to create subtle close-ups and full sequences as ‘anything else would have shortchanged his performance and… Read the full story
