{"id":1191,"date":"2015-10-27T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T07:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:08:12","slug":"see-you-again-paul-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/see-you-again-paul-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"See You Again \u2013 Paul Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-white ez-toc-container-direction\">\r\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\r\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\"><\/p>\r\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\r\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/see-you-again-paul-walker\/#Can_you_tell_which_scenes_were_CGI_after_Paul_Walkers_Death\" >Can you tell which scenes were CGI after Paul Walker\u2019s Death?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/see-you-again-paul-walker\/#A_Digital_Paul_Walker\" >A\u00a0Digital Paul Walker<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/see-you-again-paul-walker\/#Who_was_Scanned_as_Paul\" >Who was Scanned as Paul?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\r\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_you_tell_which_scenes_were_CGI_after_Paul_Walkers_Death\"><\/span>Can you tell which scenes were CGI after Paul Walker\u2019s Death?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/porsche-blames-roger-rodas-paul-walkers-death\/\"><strong>Paul Walker died<\/strong><\/a> two years ago in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/\"><strong>car<\/strong><\/a> accident, his final performance in Fast &amp; Furious was unfinished. Director James Wan was given the difficult task of figuring out how best to finish the movie without Walker. Even if you are the most hardcore F&amp;F fan struggled to tell which scenes in the last film were created with CGI.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Digital_Paul_Walker\"><\/span>A\u00a0Digital Paul Walker<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>When the film came out earlier this year, producers were silent on which scenes were VFX and which were really him, but now new images have been released showing the exact scenes featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/video\/v4142314864001\/fast--furious-7-see-the-cgi-paul-walker.html\"><strong>a digital Paul Walker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The studio who created the VFX, Weta Digital has also revealed how they used new technology to finish Walker\u2019s performance. Joe Letteri, their senior VFX supervisor, said that the company ended up doing a staggering 350 shots going through old footage to build a reference library of Walker as Brian O\u2019Conner.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_was_Scanned_as_Paul\"><\/span>Who was Scanned as Paul?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>He said: \u2018We had to complete a performance \u2014 what Paul Walker would have done if he\u2019d been able to continue. And it had to be his performance.\u2019 Walker\u2019s Brothers Cody and Caleb, as well as actor John Brotherton were scanned.<\/p>\n<p>Weta motion-captured their movements and reapplied that to the digital models of Walker they had created. Technology-wise, what was done to get the movie finished is at the cutting edge of CGI. Nobody could have pulled it off five years ago, according to Joe Letteri who said \u201cno. 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