By the time we got to actually do Furiosa, best part of a decade had gone by.
And particularly I saw Gemini Manand its just, all I was looking at was the technology.
I wasnt looking at the performance.
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I thought, We cant do this, guys.
This is someone who goes from 10 to 18, he said.
[This format worked for the story] I wanted to tell because it was different than Fury Road.
But then Fury Road was once again delayed.
Theres no point in making an anime.
[We were] going to do it with Mahiro Maeda, brilliant guy.
He started do some illustrations.
He put a teddy bear on [Dementus, the villain played by Chris Hemsworth].
That became part of the story.
That was way back before Fury Road so it was already there.
I didnt want to animate every penguin because it means that the animators had to understand tap dancing.
Thats what drives the story, the tools.
So that was the perfect tool to do that in.
He continued to describe how that kind of digital tech evolved for use in Fury Road and Furiosa.
Now the tools are getting way faster.
All of that had to be worked out shot by shot.
Every shot was rehearsedwe were able to do that digitally.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opens May 24.
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