In this expanded version of the article from the January/February 2012 issue of Creative COW Magazine, VFX Supervisor and 2nd Unit Director Rob Legato shares some of the secrets of a tribute to the love of making and watching movies, and insights into two filmmaking master storytellers, Georges Méliès and Martin Scorsese.
Rob tells readers: HUGO had perhaps a greater mission to fulfill than many VFX-themed movies because it was celebrating the life and work of the very first visual effects artist, Georges Méliès. He was also the first multi-talented auteur who wrote the movie, painted the sets, acted, and was his own editor and VFX supervisor. He did everything. When you study the work, you see what a genius and forward thinker he was, all the way back to his first films in 1896. There was no such thing as movie trickery before him.
The first meeting I had with with Hugo director Martin Scorsese, we talked about the scene where Hugo fixes a mechanical toy mouse that he presents to Méliès, having made it work better than originally designed. Marty said, "What if we did this stop motion?" My response was, "Well, it'll look like stop motion. We don't need to do it that way unless you want it to specifically look that way." Then he said, "That's exactly what I want it to look like."
All of us at Creative COW would like to thank Rob Legato for taking our readers inside the making of HUGO, and we'd also like to congratulate Rob on his Academy Award® nomination for his visual effects work on HUGO.
You can read the whole expanded edition with extra pictures, now online at:
magazine.creativecow.net/article/the-joy-of-filmmaking
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