Alice in Wonderland

Posted on 25/02/2010 in Comunicati Stampa, Homepage 1, Specials

The new and awaited movie by Tim Burton, a new interpretation of the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) will be released on March 5th.

We will find again the well-known characters, Alice (Mia Wasikowska), The White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), the White Qeen (Anne Hathaway), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar…
Recreated on the screen with visual and photographic techniques amongs live action and motion capture.
Besides Alice in Wonderland will be presented in stereoscopic 3D, the technology that is imposing itself as the new frontier in the entertainment cinema, also in Italy.

The visual effects

The visual effects have been realized by Sony Picture Imageworks, the company (Academy Award winner) specialized in visual effects production, that has worked in important movies as The Chronicles of Narnia, Spiderman, Beowolf, Superman Returns.

The production has used a lot of techniques: from live action to motion-capture, the technique that is able to record the performance of the actors so that the animated characters can play in a photorealistic way, as the Caterpillar.
Some characters, as Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), have never played with other actors, but they acted in front of a green screen and afterwards they have been “inserted” in the scene. Depp has played in a green theater, with green elements of the set, that help the actor with visual reference marks.

The Imageworks has created the CG characters as from the sketch of the storyboard. After, the cg artists have designed a first low resolution cg character. They have animated the character and after realized a high resolution of the character thanks to a more detailed model, the “pit render”. Then they have added other detailed, as clothes and fur, the lighting and the texture of background.
Alice in Wonderland has been shoot partly in stereoscopic 3D and partly with traditional technique, and after converted in post-production, a different technique than the last James Cameron’s movie, Avatar, the 3D phenomenon of the last season, realized fully in 3d and with a special software, Simulcam, that has enabled the director to shoot the scenes and to see at the same time the performance in the virtual set.
About the stereoscopic 3d,the camera operator Martin Shaer

Johnny Depp about the Mad Hatter

The making of

The trailer