![]() I think we had maybe a month or so in the office. So that helped.Īs I understand it, post-production was done entirely during the pandemic. We had almost picture lock before we had most of the visual effects shots. But he still has a bit of Andy in him." It informed so much where I could actually imagine him on screen, even when we were looking at plates, because we had to do that all the way through editing. I told them right away, "He would be Chris Pratt in Parks and Recreation with his lack of impulse control, except he's getting a little bit of the feeling that maybe he has the capacity to be Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy. But what helped a lot is, our visual effects company Framestore told me was, "Imagine Ulysses. And sometimes, I do the offscreen voices. I would puppet him several times, and it'd be a two-minute scene and she would have to remember what I was puppeting. There wasn't a puppet, there wasn't a thing, you know? A lot of times, I would be puppeting him. First, there was just figuring out how to make sure Matilda can interact with Ulysses as if he's real, when a lot of the times, she was literally talking to nothing. My CGI team and my visual effects team was really great. That was definitely one of the biggest learning experiences. What was it like for you in balancing filming live actors versus bringing the CG element of the story to life? ![]() There's a good amount of CGI involved in bringing Ulysses to life. And that's a big thing, the biggest thing Ulysses has. It's you figuring out how to enable people in society around you to be able to fight for themselves. And a lot of it is the old Superman philosophy, that it's not just you saving things. You can achieve quite a bit with just what you've been handed. ![]() Being a superhero, as Ulysses shows, is about using the tools you have for the greater good. What do you think this film says about being a superhero, especially in such a.strange time in our history? Superhero culture is such a huge part, not just of pop culture, but of Disney. This also features a core relationship between a human and an animal who communicates in his own way. I ask in part because, visiting your Twitter, I saw your avatar of Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes. I think that's what would make me like them. But all of those movies, they always have something a little bit more going on in them. I like things like the Muppets, and one thing I watched 500 times when I was little was The Mouse and the Motorcycle, which is just a cheap movie with Fred Savage talking to a little mouse based off of the book. Were there any big childhood stories that connected you to this one? As I was watching this, it felt like a throwback to what Disney would release in the early 1990s.
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