After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of partner Bagheera and free spirited bear Baloo. The man cub Mowgli flees the jungle after a threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Bagheera the panther and the bear Baloo, Mowgli also meets creatures who don't have his best interests at heart.
Motion Picture rating: Rated PG for some sequences of scary action or peril
Details
Country: Uk, USA
Language: English
Release Date: 15 April 2016
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Opening Weekend USA: $103,261.464 17 April 2016
Release Budget: $175,000,000
Gross USA: $364,001,123
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $966,550,600
Production Companies
Fairview Entertainment
Moving Picture company
Prime Focus
Walt Disney Pictures
Production
•was
produced by Walt
Disney Pictures,
directed and co-produced by Jon Favreau (), and written by
Justin Marks.
•It
was partly based on Disney’s original version but
also drew more on Kipling’s original books, giving a
rather darker
tone
•The Jungle
Book exists
in a
strange limbo-world between live action and animation.
•All the
animals and landscapes,
etc., were computer
generated, (mostly) by
the British digital effects house MPC. http://www.moving-picture.com/film/filmography/the-jungle-book/
•The
animal characters
were deliberately created with a realistic look, in
order to target older
movie-goers
•Details
on the production techniques employed can be found in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOUWQ6ioxc&feature=youtu.be
•The
Jungle Book 'Creating the Animals and the Jungle' - VFX Breakdown by MPC (2016)
key elements include:
–Analysis
of the gait and movement of live animals
–Skeletal
mapping
–Fur
movement simulation
–Landscape
mapping
–Creating
a visual library archive of objects to fill the landscapes
•Technologies
impacting on the film include
Blue screen
Facial mapping
MPC – simulation packages for fur
movement
Previsualisation
techniques
It is important to recognise that
these features were used to create an immersive (believable) production thus
making the film relevant to older audiences.
•An
advantage for Disney in the creation of the film over rivals (Warner Brothers,
who were making a film on the Jungle book at the same time) was in The Disney
corporation’s ability to utilise its
copyright protected Songs (e.g. bare Necessities)
Technology
•JB16
one of
the most technologically advanced movies ever made’; as the
director noted, ‘I found myself wrestling with the same
things as
Walt, who used cutting edge technology for his day, but
with
a different set of tools and technologies.’
•JB16 is
the result of cutting edge CGI – the animals were created digitally
post-production and the one actor in the film (playing Mowgli) acted against a
blue screen.
•scenes
for
The Jungle Book were first filmed using motion capture.
‘We motion-captured the entire movie before we filmed anything and we cut the whole film
together,’ says
•Favreau.
•Using
that
footage, the effects team then built the film’s sets virtually, a process known as previsualisation (previz). ‘Everything
was mapped against the virtual sets. We designed
•the
sets like you would for a video game.’ (http://www.wired.co.uk/article/jungle-book-jon-favreau-disney-film)
•The
CGI was mostly created by MPC.
•Their
website
includes an
excellent exposition
of how the effects were created http://
•www.moving-picture.com/film/filmography/the-jungle-book/
•The
VFX won both the BAFTA and Academy Award. The new film opens and closes using analogue
techniques, however,
referencing the
original film: https://youtu.be/aZOUWQ6iox
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