“We went back to the drawing board and I showed Bob what a motion-capture version of the dolls would look like, and he reacted badly to that. “A year before filming, we shot a test to prove this methodology, and it looked horrible,” recalls Baillie. Initially, the plan was to build oversized sections of Marwen on a giant soundstage and digitally give the actors an action figure form. Two elements were critical to Zemeckis: One was having the performances of the actors come through without any loss of fidelity - especially in their faces- and the other was maintaining the look, feel and lack of irony in Hogancamp’s photography. Steve Carell, Bob Zemeckis and the whole cast did an amazing job of riding that line.” Mark has to make it a little bit funny, otherwise, he’s going to be wallowing in his sadness in perpetuity, but it can’t be so funny as to make it not serious. The level of humor is designed to echo what Mark Hogancamp goes through. This film was absolutely no exception! Welcome to Marwen is not a Toy Story rendition of what happened in real life. “He strives to push the envelope and to do something that is new and creative. “Bob is never one to rest on his laurels,” says Baillie, who first became involved with the project back in 2013. Overseeing the visual effects in Welcome to Marwen was Kevin Baillie ( The Walk), who was tasked with turning the main cast (Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monáe, Diane Kruger, Eiza González, Gwendoline Christie and Leslie Zemeckis) into living dolls. Contributing most of the vfx work for the project were Framestore, Atomic Fiction and Method Studios. The inspirational story was the subject of the 2010 award-winning documentary Marwencol, and is now a feature film directed by Robert Zemeckis ( Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit). As a form of emotional and physical therapy, Hogancamp created and photographed a 1:6 scale World War II Belgian town in his backyard, christened Marwencol, populated by dolls representing various people in his life. 287)***Ī vicious attack outside of a bar resulted in Mark Hogancamp being in a coma for nine days, suffering from severe memory loss and having to learn how to eat, write and walk again.
***This story originally appeared in the February ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No.
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