Saturday, May 27, 2023

‘It really was her performance’: ‘The Little Mermaid’s awed VFX supervisor shares how Halle Bailey made his work ‘so much easier’

Whether we consider the reviews praising The Little Mermaid to the moon and back or the ones airing their disappointment with its failures, one thing is consistent — Halle Bailey is, without doubt, the shining star of the film, keeping it afloat even when its problematic aspects try to bog it down. Well, we now know about her saving the plot with her expressive acting prowess. What we don’t know is that Bailey is a dream come true for every VFX artist who has to work double hard to add digital effects to films. 

In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, The Little Mermaid’s visual effects supervisor Tim Burke gave a peek behind the scenes at the complex process, which includes actors being suspended in rigs for hours, involved in adding the needed visuals to make it look like they are actually underwater. But the difficult procedure became “so much easier” for Burke and his team when it came to applying the effects to Bailey’s Ariel as she was “giving a performance and a believability.”



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