Alita: Battle Angel is a spectacular start to the CGI movie calendar of Hollywood this year. Working in collaboration with Peter Jackson's motion-capture team, director Robert Rodriguez has managed to create dazzling pieces of action choreography that lets Rosa Salazar's titular female cyborg shine brightly.
Alita: Battle Angel is a spectacular start to the CGI movie calendar of Hollywood this year. Working in collaboration with Peter Jackson's motion-capture team, director Robert Rodriguez has managed to create dazzling pieces of action choreography that lets Rosa Salazar's titular female cyborg shine brightly.
Based on Yukito Kishiro's manga series, Alita: Battle Angel tells the story of cyborg warrior who fights for the elevation of those living the hardened life of Iron City, a post-apocalyptic settlement that lives at the mercy of rich population in the last floating city Zalem. Rosa Salazar brings Alita to life with the help of performance capture tech.
"I wanted to do performance capture because I love acting. I love finding new ways that I can bend my craft and use it to funnel it towards this goal we were all trying to create," said Salazar.
Explaining what went into performance capture, Salazar said, "I would say that in the beginning, you think that there's a huge difference. After doing it, I would say that there's no difference at all, except that you have to accommodate all of these extra things like the wetsuit they put you in and the dots, and coming in every day and scanning into the system and having a helmet, having a boom on your head, having the extra weight, compensating for the weight and then when they take the helmet off, your head leans the other way. Like bodily things, physical things that you have to deal with and incorporate as an actor. But in terms of performance, I found out that it was very much the same."
Salazar was also thrilled to see and anime-like version of herself on the big screen. She said, "It's super cool! When I was playing Alita, we were one and the same. And they used a lot of my real face and the real scars and divots and muscle pull and lines and creases and imperfections to look like me."
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