“Deconstructing “Watchmen”” Moderated by Bill Desowitz
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- Deconstructing “Watchmen”
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Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” is a far cry from “300”. It had to be in order to achieve such gritty realism, with 200 sets built in Vancouver and as much in-camera work as possible before resorting to CG. And yet the film is a diverse CG marvel to behold, building layer upon layer of riveting pop cultural information. This panel explores Sony’s making of Dr. Manhattan, the all-powerful, all-CG blue man, which presented new performance-capture challenges, along with his Glass Palace on Mars, which presented some new procedural challenges: digital cityscapes, 3D environments, and the CG Owlship by MPC Vancouver; the bravura opening-title sequence, which intricately sets up the history of the masked superheroes with the help of CIS Vancouver; and the making of the inkblot-stained mask of Rorschach by Intelligent Creatures.
