facial reconstruction

bloodymess · Post by **bloodymess** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:41 pm

so, here's my problem. at the end of the movie i'm going to start shooting soon, A character(a demon) needs to be shot in the head using a 12 gauge shotgun, so his head gets litteraly destroyed. he gets buried & all & all, and at the very end, he gets out of his grave and flies away(he's a demon, don't forget) with his face reconstructing. how do I achieve this reconstruction??

Jimbobsquarepants · Post by **Jimbobsquarepants** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:11 pm

easy, take it apart however you want; burn it, blow it up, smash it (talking about a model head obviously) and then reverse the clip!

Pubicface · Post by **Pubicface** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:36 pm

yea you'd have to green screen the model head and place it over the actor tho. Unless your thinkin of doing the flying away shot differently. If anything you could always pull a classic monster movie trick and have the actors face get more recontructed every time he passes behind a tree or somethin.

SammyJim · Post by **SammyJim** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:08 pm

i reckon you could buy a polystyrene head from some craft store, and dress it up in a nice latex skin and fake hair or what ever you needed. put some kind of blood filled squib in it, (i dont know about squibs though) and blow it up. the polystyrene will probably fly into pieces from around the squib.
When filming it, have the actor nearly ready to get shot, and when the trigger is pulled, cut very quickly to the polystyrene head and blow it up.

For the re contruction part, i agree with pubicface (lovin the name), do the actor running behind objects and every time he comes out, another part of his face is there. i think that might work, if you choose to do it like that, tell me how it goes!

Sammy J

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:25 pm

Like The Mummy movie?

bloodymess · Post by **bloodymess** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:08 pm

I'm afraid none of those will work... the reconstruction is all in one shot, and it's not like the pieces would stick back together, it's more like a.. regenaration, if I may say. like if the face would grow back.

Metronome · Post by **Metronome** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:10 pm

If worst comes to worst, do the regen scene first, make a ruined head, and have it fade into a good head.

Save · Post by **Save** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:14 am

can you model a skull or something?.. just make it move like the head and composite it in AE... should look fine... it's like a dusting effect only backwards... skull into face.

bloodymess · Post by **bloodymess** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:12 am

yeah, using cg is kindof the first thing I thought, but I don't know how I will be able to render this realisticaly! here, we're talking about fresh meat, not dust... any tips?

Metronome · Post by **Metronome** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:44 am

If you can't get it done the way you want, you may have to do it the second best way.

bloodymess · Post by **bloodymess** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:15 am

thanks to everybody, I think I have found out how to do the exact thing I want... I'm going to do it the hard way, though... frame by frame editing... ugh... at least it's going to work!