![]() ![]() It stretches nearly 250 feet wide with a large hole on the bottom and a square, green eye deep within its shell. Jean Jacket hides in the clouds shaped in a saucer form as a way not to be exposed. ![]() “We started to think about that deeply for our creature.” Courtesy MPC/Universal Pictures. It’s one of the most efficient animals in the world as it uses very little energy to eat, move, to do whatever it needs to do because their whole body is designed to be functional,” explains Rocheron. “We consulted with John Dabiri, a professor at CalTech who studies jellyfish. The extraterrestrial had influences from Japanese anime while grounding its movement from real-world animals. We worked with Leandre Lagrange, our main concept artist, and he came back with some incredibly unique design proposals.” Courtesy MPC/Universal Pictures. “Early on in the process, we connected on a minimalistic design. “Jordan had in his head that he wanted a creature that looks like a classic UFO but evolves into something else,” says Rocheron. Courtesy MPC/Universal Pictures.įor the entity, which OJ names Jean Jacket after a horse Emerald was promised as a child, its development tracks to when Peele was writing the script. “The challenge was different because our whole movie was about the sky.” Courtesy MPC/Universal Pictures. “It had to be incredibly invisible to the audience, so no one said I’m looking at a digital sky,” says Rocheron. The digital creations were then infused to match the sunlight and lighting of the location imagery. Animators were able to lay out the sky and simulate each cloud (and their movements) based on actual altitudes and wind speeds. The results gave VFX complete control over the look and feel of Earth’s atmosphere. ![]() The hurdle wasn’t a simple cosmetic sky replacement but months-long research and development project where innovative tech was created, which allowed them to design cloudscapes that seamlessly blended with the set photography from Dutch cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. (from left) OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya), Angel Torres (Brandon Perea) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer) in Nope, written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele. Those events Rocheron hints at taking place at the Haywood family ranch, miles outside of Hollywood, where, after the loss of their father (Keith David), siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer) discover a celestial creature hiding in the clouds, feeding on anything staring at it for too long. “So the sky became a big subject where we had to design a whole playground for the events to happen.” You are going to look at the clouds and have to be scared,” Rocheron tells The Credits. “Jordan said if we do our job well, the audience, after seeing the movie, will look at the sky differently. The Nope VFX team set out to make the blue ether a haunting character, one indicative of the dooming waters in Spielberg’s 1975 thriller Jaws. And among the roughly 700 effects shots in the film, VFX supervisor Guillaume Rocheron ( 1917, Life of Pi) admits it’s one of the most rewarding as “most people don’t realize they’re looking at a giant visual effect.” Jordan Peele’s extraterrestrial spectacle Nope has a secret you may not know about: the sky itself is a digital recreation. ![]()
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