Hollywood's Best-Kept Secrets: Behind the Green Screen Magic

9. Infinity War

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The development of Thanos marks a historic success in character animation and motion capture technologies. Through a complex facial scanning technique and advanced CGI application, Josh Brolin's performance became the terrifying villain. From delicate eye motions to sophisticated emotional displays, the technology applied lets one capture every element of Brolin's facial emotions with until unheard-of accuracy. Multiple facial capture points tracking and recording every minute movement—then transferred into the digital model of Thanos—this advanced approach to character development The outcome is a flawless fusion of digital craft and human acting that produced among the most convincing and realistic CGI characters in film history. Given the character's major screen time and the necessity to keep constant quality over many emotional situations, the technical accomplishment is quite remarkable.