“We played a lot with how to do that and pull that off,” notes Hoover. The script also called for the Smurfs to do a lot of running around and exploring in the human world, and to be chased by humans, including Gargamel who makes his way into the New York world. wp-content/uploads/2011/08/smurfs_character1.mp4Watch an Imageworks Smurfs character breakdown. We built their anatomy and their facial controls based on what we expected from a human performance, albeit with an view towards the unique things about Smurfs – large eyes and ears and a larger head.” “For the blue skin, we used a lot of humanistic reference with pores and peach fuzz and wrinkles around their eyes and various levels of translucency.
“The attitude towards the design process was to be true to the original as much as possible,” says Imageworks visual effects supervisor Richard Hoover. One of the initial considerations for tiny Smurfs was just how to make seven-inch tall – officially ‘three apples high’ – blue-skinned characters read in a live-action film, and one that would also be stereo-converted. ‘Three apples high’ – Imageworks builds the Smurfs We talk to Sony Pictures Imageworks about the creation of the Smurfs and their world, and to Tippett Studio who realized shots of Gargamel’s sidekick cat Azrael. Raja Gosnell’s The Smurfs breathes real life into the famous miniature blue cartoon characters, who find themselves chased from peaceful village to scary New York by the evil wizard Gargamel.
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