I must have seen Oscar-nominated movie The Creator half a dozen times and failed to notice a subtle VFX detail that has now made me want to see it all over again. In an interview with our sister magazine 3D World ILM animation supervisor Christopher Potter shared an insight into what the spinning discs inside the Simulants' heads really mean.
"If a Simulant was in a high-stress scenario, we'd amplify the movements to emulate how they were feeling," says ILM's Christopher Potter. "As opposed to a quiet scene where it's almost like breathing, for the scenes where they're interacting with technology it goes extra fast again."
