The Legend of Ochi director on the power of puppets

The legend of Ochi It feels like a movie that is not available today. It’s a popular story that is no longer a popular book or comic. The complex is full of dolls and practical effects, many movies are easier to deal with CG because it is easier to do. And Roald Dahl wakes part of a part of the ’80 and ’90s as matching adaptation Witches.

According to Isaiah Saxon, the writer and director of the film, it was the struggle to acquire The legend of Ochi did. “The attempt to prepare the film took longer than the preparation of the film,” he said. Engadget in Podcast. “I think that with your first movie, it is very difficult to reach children with your children, because now it is a kind behind this corporate IP world. But I wanted to reach children with my first film and therefore took it so long.”

When you receive a little funding for the film, Saxon says he used with a prototype with London John Nolan Studiosestablished an animatronic for movies like Jura World DominioAlso, the exploration places in Romania. “And therefore, with three and a half years of this work before taking a green light [to make the film]After that, I calculated this visual package, which is undeniable, “he said. Said.

The result is a movie that feels incredibly personal and different. A young girl growing in a small village on the island of Carpathia gathers over Yuri (Helena Zengel). There are people afraid of the mysterious primates that live in the forests and attacking farm animals. His father Maxim (Willem Dafoe is a conservative, excessive macho man who led the guy group to hunt Ochi to the Ochi. Yes and sometimes wearing viking armor.

The film begins with Ochi, which looks like a remote monkey monkeys. Yuri was removed to fear them, but after the meeting of a young oçi, he began to reject everything he taught his father. It also helps the creature to look adorable, it looks like a little with great eyes and ears This Mandaloria‘s Grogu (aka baby Yoda), but with fur. Baby Ochi also look forward to seeing these days these days in the complex doll, created by John Nolan Studios. However, a clear physical object, with real face movements where Yuri may react.

“The puppet is so an ancient form of art,” Sakson said: When he says, “Safe”, the ochi asked not a doll and purely CG creatures, but why they pushed. “We have been shades for thousands of years in the cave wall and give our brains as a character as we followed the human hand.”

“And then there is also the charm of the puppet cavity.

Creating a persuasive doll is just a problem, although the other is built effectively with a movie set. “[John Nolan Studios] With animatronics, he pushed the boundaries of things you can do on a really small scale, “Saxon said.” We were able to prototype for years to build these creatures. And then the set, we exercised every picture with all these dolls. There are five in the body led by Rob Tygner, and he said that the animal’s internal monologue of the animal – all his thinking, all the synchronization. “

While the other two people control the puppet face, looking at monitors, there is a problem to operate them as an institution, Saxon says. The sets of the film are built to catch all of those who managing the Ochi doll and all those who will be often done. And then there are suit performers. “They have little people with difficulty animatronic heads that they can be seen with difficulty. He also has in the Carpathian desert in the mountains of Transylvania.

After seeing what results in The legend of OchiIt is not difficult to see Disney Saxon hit Saxon for anything in Marvel Universe, as with so much independent director. But this probably will not happen. “I said no longer,” Saxon celebrated a spectacular film and there is no desire to do anything in an existing IP.

Saxon, despite an open love for the doll, not completely using digital means. The legend of Ochi It still uses CG to create remote images and virtual sets of Och. “I also have been learning CG for many years and I have prepared a purely animated 3D films. I know the program and I know that the bespoxe craftsmanship is full of tedious and detail.”

“It does not receive the respect of this.” “And it’s partly because it is used for more than a kind of corporatization and CG.” Saxon says a CG character knows that it is not able to carry the film, but he also knew that it was the best way to create a 3D river in Romania. (Bjork reminds the music video of Wanderlust “Wanderlust” ()

“You have to look at every opportunity and come to organic techniques for the task. You can’t have philosophies about it.”