Early in the film, Sky Captain (Jude Law) and Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) break into a lab looking for clues to the disappearance of several notable world scientists, and find more (and less) than they bargained for.
“I tried what at the time was a fairly unconventional approach,” he says, “shooting a film entirely on a blue screen soundstage, fully intending to replace those backgrounds with things generated in the computer. It was more like using the computer as an optical printer. However the backgrounds were achieved, it was the computer that married them. And did so sort of affordably.”
In this shot, the actors play the scene against a blue screen.
A computer-generated 3D virtual set, with tiny pachyderm, but no actors.
A complete black-and-white composite of the shot.
The final shot, with color washed over the black-and-white composite to create the film's unique look.
“Sky Captain” Flies to Big Screen
