- Hi, Frank.
This is Jimmy Hoffa.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Glad to meet you.
Well glad to meet you too
even if it's over the phone.
Marty Scorsese
and Robert De Niro
have been trying to make this
movie for about 10 years.
Besides the calendar,
you know, of their work,
it was also about doing the
flashbacks part of the movie
that was very difficult to do.
And so, the
technology came along.
And, you know, we
decided to do it.
We innovated in the
sense that the actors
didn't want to wear any
markers in their faces
and didn't want to have
helmets with little cameras.
And they wanted to be on set
with theatrical lighting.
And it was really important
for us to actually do that.
Because the actors didn't
want the technology to burden
the acting.
Marty did not want us to change
the performance, not even
blink.
Because these actors
are incredible actors.
And so, we did not change
the performances per se.
But we just made them younger.
This is a three-camera rig
that has a central camera
that is the director camera.
And then, the other
two cameras are
witness cameras, what we call.
They just record data.
And because we don't have
markers in their faces,
the more data we have,
the better their chances
of recreating the performance.
And so, this [INAUDIBLE] takes
a look at those three cameras
and takes a look
at the information
that came through the cameras.
And then, based on the lighting
and what the lighting does
to our textures,
creates, you know,
basically geometry that
mimics what we're doing.
And it does that for
every one of the frames.
Bob's reaction
was, you know, give
me 30 more years of my career.
You know, it's really a
great, great thing to see.
I mean, yes, we have to
use it for the aging.
But it could be that an
actor is playing a character,
and it ends up being a creature,
you know, or an animal,
or some kind of another render.
It's been an incredible
experience to work with them.
