![]() Yoon had previously worked with Antosca on his Syfy “Channel Zero” series, which helped him immediately understand what the producer would be looking for on this series. “Brand New Cherry Flavor” filmed amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020, which meant visual effects were all done remotely, to adhere to new safety protocols. But for the eyes and the mouth, we 2-and-a-half D effects, so we track in a matte painting of the mouth and then we literally animate the stills.” It’s pretty standard stuff that we use as a toolkit. “We just put procedural effects that add additional lighting to it. At points in the rough you could tell it’s a puppet - it’s a little stiff - so we had to put in every little blink, mewing at certain points, we had to make it more slimy and shiny,” he says. “Nick and Lenore especially wanted that expressiveness of this fragile kitten. They also had to add “bloody, pinkish slime” to the kittens’ coloring. Although Salazar really did spit something out of her mouth on set, visual effects was responsible for increasing the size of what was coming out of her in those moments so “it filled the mouth,” Yoon points out. So, those are the invisible effects that we do.”įrom there, he and his team had to ramp up the emotion on the kittens’ faces and make sure they looked like they had just come out of Lisa’s body. And then once you have it isolated, then to remove the rigs, you have to recreate the frame behind the rigs and you have to track that all in. You have to isolate the kitten, so you have to rotoscope it out - you’re literally cutting it out on the frame. ![]() “The kittens have these puppeteering rods that have these wires that go in that manipulate the little features in their faces,” he explains. First and foremost, Yoon reveals, was removing the puppeteering rig from every frame of footage from these kitten sequences. This came into play in the kitten scenes in a number of ways. “I think where special effects is really effective when you do start with a base in something physical and real,” Yoon tells Variety, noting that a lot of what he loves about his job is “helping people tell the stories in either creative or invisible ways.” (Needless to say, the discomfort of that proved to be a one-time thing, and Lisa went back to accepting the oral alternative.) The written description came from the minds of showrunners Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion, but the look of the newborn kittens were a collaboration between an on-set puppeteer team and the visual effects team, lead by VFX supervisor Danny Yoon. ![]() Usually, Lisa vomited up these kittens, but after asking Boro to make that stop, she ended up birthing one from a new orifice that tore itself in her torso. ![]()
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