At Instinct, we understand that sometimes what the script requires is just not possible to achieve practically with a real animal. We realize computers can do some things we can’t do with an animal. And that’s ok with us, our primary goal is animal safety.
CGI is one of the biggest advancements and revolutionary film making techniques to affect the animal industry. Virtually every film involving an animal seen recently has some element of CGI in them.
VFX comes in many different elements from green and blue screen shooting, plate shots, locked shots, multi-pass shots and split-screen shots, to the latest in motion capture shooting stages and 3D full body scanning.
We find we can work alongside the new technology instead of fighting against it. We are happy to assist with placing marker dots on a dog to capture the motion exactly and create an impossible stunt safely.
Our wolf puppets have been used in various projects to avoid recreating a wolf CGI from scratch. By filming with the puppet and then making an eye blink or breath come out the mouth during post production, the scene becomes real and is accomplished at a much lesser cost.
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