Warning: This article contains mild spoilers fromDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
WithD&D, the duo wanted to one-up themselves.
That’s where Doric comes in.
Sophia Lillis stars as the shape-shifting druid Doric in ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’.Paramount Pictures and eOne
Of course, visual effects sorcery did some of the work, but that provided its own obstacles.
“We also tried as much as we could to rely on practical environments.
According to Goldstein, the sequence evolved as they realized what they logistically could pull off.
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein on the set of ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’.Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures and eOne
“When you’re in the storyboard and [previsualization] stage, everything seems possible.
And then you get closer to it and you have to make certain changes,” he says.
“We felt that wasn’t quite working.
So we had the idea of having a family be there.
We shot that family against blue screen in L.A. and merged the two things together.”
“There was also a moment when the mouse enters the cell with the prisoner.
to climb up the wall, it changes into a lizard.
“We knew that to go from animal to humanoid form is always going to be bizarre-looking.
She put in the work before realizing it would largely be done through CG.
“Like, how a bird flies off the branch.
What do they do first with the arms and the legs?
And how do they land?
‘Cause I thought I was at least going to do something animal like.”
“I also did a movement class and stuff like that,” she adds.
“It was kind of embarrassing to walk around animal-like.”
Want more movie news?
