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Michael Jordan against a green background: this is how 'Space Jam' was recorded

2020-08-18T18:16:02.349Z


LeBron James has shared the first image of the kit that the protagonists of the new film will wear.Next 2021 the movie Space Jam will be 25 years old and, coinciding with the anniversary, its second part will be released: Space Jam 2: A New Legacy. LeBron James, forward of the Los Angeles Lakers and protagonist of the new installment, has published a video this August 18 where, for the first time, you can see what the new kit of the Looney Tunes team will be like. In the original feature film, ...


Next 2021 the movie Space Jam will be 25 years old and, coinciding with the anniversary, its second part will be released: Space Jam 2: A New Legacy. LeBron James, forward of the Los Angeles Lakers and protagonist of the new installment, has published a video this August 18 where, for the first time, you can see what the new kit of the Looney Tunes team will be like. In the original feature film, Michael Jordan was the star who had to help these cartoons win a crucial match. If they lost, they would become just another attraction in an alien theme park. Although Jordan appears accompanied by Bugs Bunny, Tweety and company throughout the film, behind the cameras the situation was very different: during much of the filming, the only company of the Chicago Bulls player were people dressed in green.

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In the original film, Michael Jordan (and other actors like Bill Murray) shared their real world with the animated Looney Tunes . Although the screen could see how both worlds coexisted, the basketball player used to be alone behind the cameras. The images of the making of (how it was made) in which the former Chicago Bulls player is seen facing specialists dressed in green, to be eliminated from the plane later in post-production, are very popular on social networks, where they tend to become popular from time to time . 

This is how #SpaceJam was filmed, 90s chroma green with very tall chroma-ninjas playing with #MichaelJordan.
By the way, the sequel has just been confirmed for 2021, this time starring #LeBronJames. 🐰🏀💚 # VFX #cinema # SpaceJam2 #verdeCroma #EfectosVisuales pic.twitter.com/8BrfQ3VUHU

- Carolina Jiménez G. (@Okinfografia) March 2, 2019

I'm watching space jam and I'm just thinking about Michael Jordan green screen photos and people (chroma), like this: pic.twitter.com/NKqAfVlrRz

- 𝒂𝒘𝒂 𝒅𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒂 (@AdamaryRiggs) May 5, 2020

In the making of of Space Jam, which can be seen in full on YouTube, the keys that helped the feature film take shape are revealed. The first part of the process, and according to one of the animators in the video, begins with “a piece of paper, a pencil and some drawings”.

In this part of the development, the animators begin by hand-drawing the storyboard or visual script, which consists of a set of animations arranged according to the sequences to serve as a guide before the film is made. Thus, the cartoons that would shape the Looney Tunes , including their movements, reactions and positions , were drawn by hand . After this first approach, the next step was to record the Michael Jordan scenes that would later be incorporated into the film.

Image of the 'storyboard' of the film.

In addition to the information that appears in the making of , this process is explained in detail on the film's official page. The Space Jam website, created in 1996 and which maintains a very characteristic aesthetic of the time, says that in this part the player only saw a “green sea”. The scenes were recorded in a large studio lined in green (with red dots that served as a reference to mark the distance) so that later this background, called chroma, could be replaced by cartoons in post-production.

The creators wanted to achieve the maximum possible realism and, to try to achieve this, they developed techniques that allowed to capture the movements in the most natural way possible. For this reason, and while Jordan was filming in that large green studio, there were other actors with him dressed in green as a reference. Ed Jones, executive director of Cinesite (one of the companies in charge of the animation of the feature film), explained it this way in the video of the making of : “We wanted to record in a very free way and capture in a very spontaneous way the way he has of play basketball".

And I also bring you some images of the shooting in motion, that there is no way to see things on video. Especially if it comes to seeing Michael Jordan and Bill Murray playing basketball with a bunch of chroma-ninjas on #SpaceJam.
#VFX #verdeCroma #EfectosVisuales #cinema pic.twitter.com/CUm9FDqtNY

- Carolina Jiménez G. (@Okinfografia) March 2, 2019

While these scenes were being filmed, the animators took the opportunity to take photos of Jordan's movements. These served as a reference to include the player's drawing in the storyboard , and thus gain a perspective of how the final result would be. Subsequently, these traces were scanned and transferred to a computer. The video also explains that to make the stadium references were taken from a real one, and on the web it is detailed that the public was a mix between duplicate drawings and people recorded in real life with "strange costumes", which were later manipulated By computer.

The final part of this great project consisted in combining what was recorded in real life with the drawings of the animated characters. This was possible thanks to the use of animation programs through the computer. In addition, the use of a camera that allowed taking 3D portraits of the actors was also key, in order to better capture their movements. As Michael Jordan explained in the making of , "a lot of the technology used in the film is just incredible. If they have been able to make me turn out well, they can make anyone turn out well as well."

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Source: elparis

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