What These Disney Live-Action Remakes Looked Like Before CGI

Disney's live-action remakes have dazzled audiences around the world but it takes a lot of work to make these movies as visually impressive as they are. Don't believe it? Take a look at how these Disney's live-action remakes look without the CGI.

The visual effects wizards at MPC spent two long years building the wild, dense world of The Jungle Book, the vast majority of which was created digitally. VFX supervisor Adam Valdez told Animation World Network:

"When they came to us wanting to do the movie with bluescreen and one kid, it was daunting."

The company had a team from its Bangalore office visit 50 different jungle locations around India to conduct research for the project. They came back with hundreds of thousands of reference photos, as well as plenty of animal footage for the visual effects team to work with. But creating the movie's photo-realistic animals wasn't even the hard part.

Making Bagheera and Baloo's interactions with Mowgli feel genuine was what would ultimately make or break Jon Favreau's live action remake of The Jungle Book and the MPC team knew that all too well. Valdez explains:

"The guys in the rigging department spent many months developing and researching facial anatomy on big cats, wolves and bears, as well as how they move."

In the end, it was an astute suggestion from the director that made all the difference. According to Valdez:

"Jon had this brilliant idea of using Jim Henson Company puppeteers to work with Neel Sethi, the actor who plays Mowgli, so that he always had a moving and engaging puppet. A young person leaves that to the imagination and it came through."

The visual effects artists working on The Jungle Book were also aware that a lot was riding on the appearance of the story's antagonist, Shere Khan.

The human-hating tiger was just a guy in a blue leotard on set, but MPC's team of animators had to turn him into a fearsome villain. According to the company's VFX supervisor Adam Valdez, the challenge was in creating animals that were capable of conveying emotion while still looking completely natural. Keep watching the video to see what these Disney live-action remakes looked like before CGI.

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The Jungle Book | 0:00
Beasts in the jungle | 1:23
Beauty and the Beast | 2:28
Pete's Dragon | 3:23
Elliott's fur | 4:16
Aladdin | 5:05
New worlds | 6:11
Cinderella | 7:02
Dumbo | 8:01
Seeing elephants fly | 9:01
Christopher Robin | 10:09
Alice in Wonderland | 11:12
Alice Through the Looking Glass | 11:58
Maleficent | 12:58
Mistress of Evil | 14:03

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