Executive producer/director Tim Burton required that a whole man be hired to portray the character, Thing, in Netflix's 'Wednesday.' See the movie magic for yourself here:
) closest pals is a disembodied hand known as Thing. Using only four fingers and a thumb, Thing has become a breakout favorite among fans of the series, which wrapped its first season just before Thanksgiving.And to our surprise, Thing isn't some well-crafted CGI or animated creation ... Thing is a real person!of a real person.
"Somebody who had the right look to the hands, who had nimble fingers, who was able to do all these moves ," says VFX supervisor Tom Turnbull in the YouTube video."Also had to be young enough and supple enough to fit in very awkward situations." They found the right combination in Romanian magician Victor Dorobantu, who hadn't acted before being signed on as Thing. And as he explains, acting only through a hand presented both physical and emotional challenges."It’s pretty hard to create from start to end," he says in the video."Even the way 'talks' it’s pretty hard to find movement that can express feeling.
For shooting, Dorobantu would wear a full-body blue suit so that he could be digitally erased later, then a prosthetic was built for the top of his hand to resemble a wrist knob. He did a lot of crouching and crawling around to make the hand look mobile, but sometimes the set had to be adjusted to accommodate Dorobantu, rather than the other way around."ou have to prepare with the VFX guys," he says in the video.
Wednesday Addams was originally created by Charles Addams for cartoons that appeared in the New Yorker between 1938 and 1988. The Addams family were humorous because they steep themselves in Gothic and macabre styles. Things that would horrify most people are delightful to them. Eventually they were the subject of a 1964 sitcom, two live-action feature films, animated series, a Broadway musical and two animated films.
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