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Making Of Yu Yu Hakusho - Netflix

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Even #GoAyano (Younger Toguro) and #KenichiTakito (Elder Toguro) can't hide their surprise at the shooting technique that brought the Toguro brothers to life.
Director Sho Tsukikawa, VFX Supervisor Ryo Sakaguchi and VFX Producer Tomofumi Akahane talk about using the latest visual effects technology.

Get a close look behind the scenes of the world's most cutting-edge level of production with the participation of Hollywood video production studio Scanline VFX.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:06 >> Ident Studios' Netflix's innovation happened to field of virtual production
00:10 and production innovation.
00:11 >> [FOREIGN]
00:15 >> You can do things that you actually never thought was possible.
00:18 Technologies that used to be only available in Hollywood blockbuster
00:23 films is now available to a Japanese production.
00:25 >> [FOREIGN]
00:35 >> One of the key technologies that we're developing is in the field of
00:53 volumetric capture.
00:54 The technology is always based on the still the idea that there's a director
00:58 actor relationship.
01:00 We are not doing CG animation.
01:02 The director has its input into the performances.
01:05 >> Cut.
01:06 Great.
01:06 >> [FOREIGN]
01:16 >> [FOREIGN]
01:26 >> [FOREIGN]
01:36 >> Toguro brothers are the main villains on the show.
01:54 They both are significantly difficult creatures to make.
01:57 And that, I think,
01:59 was not possible without the new tech that we're using on this project.
02:01 [MUSIC]
02:06 So we have to put a facial performance with a dialogue onto a shape-changing
02:12 creature body.
02:13 When you wanna try to put a real actor's facial performance onto a CG creature,
02:18 that blend is also very difficult.
02:19 >> [FOREIGN]
02:29 >> [FOREIGN]
02:45 >> [FOREIGN]
02:55 >> The whole project, the mission was to collaborate with the own set people and
02:59 then come up with all because of you, your action stuff.
03:02 [MUSIC]
03:04 >> [FOREIGN]
03:14 >> [FOREIGN]
03:24 >> We have now seven,
03:34 eight different visual effects companies all over the world who's working on it.
03:39 Which is actually also the first show in Japan who's doing the sort of global
03:43 visual effect production.
03:44 >> [FOREIGN]
03:54 [MUSIC]
04:06 >> [FOREIGN]
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