VFX

Later, the VFX team will seamlessly impose du Pontavice’s face on Broad’s body.

“The reason that CG and digital VFX got maligned is that there was an overreliance and a kind of laziness that started to develop in the industry where it was like, ‘Just shoot everyone on a blue screen and figure it out later,’” Saxon says.

And that even when working with the most renowned companies in VFX, there are still qualities, like the way light falls on an object, that look different when there’s something physical on set.

As well as purely animated films and TV, many live action releases are in large-part the work, of the employees of VFX studios.

It has been a major force in the VFX industry delivering big budget movies such as recent computer-animated remakes of Disney's The Lion King and the Jungle Book.