'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s' VFX Team Talks About Creating ‘Rocket Runt,’ And The Tool From 'Guardians 1' They Used For Inspiration

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00:00 It's not an easy task to design all these different rocket

00:06 raccoons at different ages.

00:07 And definitely, there were a bit of trial and error

00:11 of finding what is the right look.

00:13 And so we definitely had some concepts, some great concepts,

00:17 sketches from the art department at Marvel that always provide

00:21 some great starting points.

00:22 So we know roughly what age we need to eat, basically.

00:26 But they are just sketches.

00:27 They are not yet photo real.

00:29 And James Gunn and Steph also had this chart

00:33 where you see all the different sizes

00:35 they want rocket raccoons to be during the movie.

00:37 So we had some information to start with.

00:40 And then we started with modeling the rocket runs.

00:45 So the one that is supposed to be photo real,

00:48 it's supposed to exist in real life.

00:49 That's where we started because we had the adults.

00:54 And so we said, OK, let's build the run.

00:56 So we casted a little raccoon that actually--

01:00 it's a real raccoon that Steph and James

01:03 had on set of "Guardians 1."

01:06 They already knew that it was going

01:08 to be needed for "Guardians 3."

01:10 So they had pictures.

01:12 And so we started that as a starting point

01:13 because it was really, really cute.

01:15 We were very conscious of that as we're

01:18 doing the opening credits because it's a much, much more

01:21 sad opening than the previous films.

01:25 But also, it just tells you what the story is going to be.

01:27 We're plunging into it straight away.

01:30 It's a darker movie, but it's also a very hopeful ending

01:37 in the end.

01:37 But just to come back on what Alexi is saying,

01:40 I think not only we can talk about Rocket,

01:43 but in the flashbacks, there was all these companions

01:47 that were with him and that have a huge part in the story.

01:50 And it's interesting for me because we

01:54 were really-- because it's the core of the movie,

01:56 we're really thinking, how do we get

01:58 the emotion for these scenes?

02:00 And talking with James and trying

02:03 to figure out what the best way to acquire this was, OK,

02:07 we're going to do just the first two days of the film.

02:10 And we're going to shoot that the first two days.

02:12 And we're going to get all the actors in.

02:15 Sean playing Rocket, obviously, as he always does.

02:19 We don't have Bradley.

02:20 But all the other actors were the voice actors,

02:22 the real actors for the role.

02:24 And we shot the 15, 20 minutes of flashback,

02:27 the first two days of principal photography.

02:30 And it was really important that we would do that.

02:32 And we captured the camera moves that James wanted to capture.

02:37 We did a reference shoot, like film theater, pretty much.

02:41 And all that acting, all that thing

02:45 got edited by our editors, by Fred Raskin, our editor,

02:49 and then got turned over to Framestore.

02:51 And really, what I want to emphasize on

02:53 is that it's really a work that goes from the actors that

02:59 do the best acting they can.

03:02 And they're really good.

03:03 And watching that edit the first time,

03:06 I mean, showing it to the guys at Framestore,

03:08 they were all very emotional, just looking

03:10 at people in gray suits, not even animals.

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