in James Jan peace makerJohn Cena’s titular hero of sorts is forced to join the mysterious black squad ARGUS on a mission to eradicate a butterfly-like alien race that has taken over human hosts around the world. When viewers finally get their first look at the creatures outside of a human host in the series, it becomes crystal clear why they are called butterflies. They are surprisingly delicate and beautiful creatures, something that makes for an interesting stand-off with how brutal their possessions really are and according to Wētā FX VFX Supervisor Guy Williams, the creatures’ beauty is on purpose – and reveals some of the inspiration behind their looks.
“The thing to remember…One of the things you enjoy about the way James tells stories is that far from Oggy being a straight-up evil racist, most of his characters aren’t very black and white. Peacemaker is definitely not Superman or Captain America,” said Williams. “It is not your ideal version of a human being. He is a much more connected person. So, even somewhat wicked ones can have some good traits. So, for butterflies, yes, they do kill humans. Yes, they kill humans without even possessing their bodies but at the end of the day, you have to remember that the butterfly race is a dead race.”
He continued, “They don’t have a planet anymore. There aren’t many of them out there, and instead of just going out and dying on a boat somewhere, they decide to go to another planet and try to steer it away from their own oblivion. So, in some ways, there is a great nobility for what Butterflies do it but at the same time, it’s still bad because it takes away our choice to spoil them or succeed on our own. So, there’s this constant struggle because you don’t want them to be so terrible. It’s not clear they’re the bad guys. Even when you think about all that, you can understand that there is Some good for them.”
The benevolence within butterflies, Williams said, is what makes the delicate and beautiful natures of the creatures work really well.
“So, it pays for them to actually be sensitive and beautiful and vulnerable and vulnerable, because to some extent they exhibit traits just like the rest of us,” Williams said. “They’re trying to do a good thing, but they’re doing it in a rather bad way. The art department on the production side did a great set of designs on it and gave it to us. We had to perceive the wings. The body itself was well perceived. We had to legitimize it just because When you get into the animation, you have to make sure that a really cool leg has to be able to bend at its knuckles. So, we had to insert little fleshy parts here and there so we could bend the knuckles wherever we needed to, without looking glamorous.”
“But for the wings, we kind of thought of a dragonfly wing, where it had a kind of transparency and iridescence,” he continued. “But at the same time, it would be a cross between a dragonfly wing and a butterfly wing. Therefore, it had a wide area and butterfly wing pattern, with a bit of transparency and iridescence luster for a dragonfly.”
He also explained that outside of the wings, they wanted to make it look like a real bug, but not something so real that people think they’ve seen it before, and eventually they used references from many other different types of bugs to create something with real items.
“It’s just about taking a bunch of bug parts and bending the properties together to create a new bug, so it looks real, but it’s not,” he said.
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