“We also had these ‘stunties’ wear a helmet with a wire holding a ping pong ball where their head needed to be at the right height,” said Helman, who also noted this aided in camera framing and in interaction with the other actors.īelow is on-set B-roll footage that shows a stunt performer standing in for Bebop while wearing a special grey-markered tracking suit designed to aid in replacing him with a CG character in post-production. This was acquired using stunt performers wearing ILM’s patented iMocap suits, effectively gray tracking suits with specialized markers. Both characters required hair and cloth simulation, too, with Bebop sporting a mohawk and each wearing an array of biker fatigues and equipment.Īnother form of animation data was also available in the form of stunt motion capture for scenes involving Bebop and Rocksteady during choreographed fights. They’d then take the resulting data into their animation. The animators would, at times, use ILM’s own motion capture stage to perform certain parts of the Bebop and Rocksteady scenes themselves. Stephen ‘Sheamus’ Farrelly (left) and Gary Anthony Williams play Rocksteady and Bebop, respectively. “Gary and Sheamus were so good together and they had such a great time on set you can’t possibly ignore that,” said Helman, commenting on how the actors’ performances remained part of ILM’s interpretation of the characters. Bebop and Rocksteady are hanging out in the latters old warehouse, last seen in 'Serpent Hunt'. Bebop and Rocksteady defected from the Foot in that episode when things got too weird for them. ILM’s animators, overseen by animation supervisor Kevin Martel and associate animation supervisor Shawn Kelly, then infused the actor’s performances into the cg characters, along with additional keyframing. The Turtles find their lives boring after the final defeat of the Foot and Shredders permanent death in 'End Times'.
However, Williams and Farrelly still performed Bebop and Rocksteady in animal form as stand-ins or as reference during filming.
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While the actors playing the turtles wore full facial motion capture gear as part of ILM’s Muse system, a system that included further advancements such as pupil tracking, this process was not followed for Bebop and Rocksteady, partly because the facial features of the warthog and rhino were so different from the actors. “They needed to be goofy but also lovable,” said Helman. Since Bebop and Rocksteady’s original incarnations were in cartoon form, ILM had to re-interpret them for a photorealistic world and make sure the characters remained appealing.
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