i was the vfx supervisor for mpc on mufasa: the lion king.ilming a movie, but instead of going outside and filming it, you are goggling up in virtual reality and you are strolling the savanna in that virtual environment. environments — the director having a monitor so he could see what was happening in the scene, but, in reality, you had an empty volume, so it was him going around and finding his angles. so that was a little bit of revolution on this movie — being able to freely direct those virtual characters live. back to the trees. we're trapped! no, we have to fight. and for this movie, we are visiting the entire mountains, rivers. we had hundreds of greens, we call them, which is plants, trees, rocks that we would set—dress everywhere in order to add a layer of complexity on those sets. and his dop, james laxton. their camera is very dynamic. it moves a lot. it goes extremely close to those characters, animals, would hold close—ups, extreme close—ups — and those shots are extremely long, too, so we needed to make sure that we would be ab