Q&A with Rob Legato - The Lion King | Technicolor
Three-time Oscar-winning VFX Supervisor Rob Legato reteamed with director Jon Favreau, MPC, and other filmmakers from The Jungle Book to bring the beloved characters from another Disney classic back to the screen – in a whole new way. Q - How did you first get involved with The Lion King? A - I got involved with The Lion King because I did The Jungle Book with Jon Favreau, Adam Valdez from MPC, and Andy Jones – and essentially the whole group was brought back to work on The Lion King. Q - Can you talk about your role on the project? A - My role primarily as a visual effects supervisor on this job was to give an analog feel to the photography of the fully digital characters. Part of that was transplanting everything we know in real photography to something akin to it on our virtual stage. So when somebody like Caleb Deschanel comes in to photograph something [on the virtual stage], it's not going to be a completely foreign experience. There’s a camera, there’s a dolly track, there’s a c
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