How 'Captain Marvel' VFX Team Crafted a Scene-Stealing Cat

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Goose, the feisty feline companion in Captain Marvel, is no ordinary cat

, is no ordinary cat. For one, Goose is actually an alien creature called a Flerken, which can emit tentacles from its mouth. And secondly, Goose is computer generated.the first female-fronted stand-alone movie in the MCU, with Brie Larson as the titular lead, takes place in the 1990s and explores the origin story of the comic book superhero. For the filmmakers, Goose needed to "perform" beyond the scope of what is teachable to a real cat.

Scenes included Goose in zero gravity while traveling on a space craft, swallowing the Tesseract and fending off enemies with its giant tentacles. Reggie first had to be lidar scanned, which provided a guide, Croshaw Ralla explains. A model cat was built without fur and a skeleton was added. Strands of fur were meticulously placed, and animators created movement such as walking and jumping. "A big challenge was to match the incredibly complex fur patterns on Reggie," Croshaw Ralla says., shared by 15 VFX houses including Industrial Light + Magic, Trixter and Animal Logic.

Meanwhile, Croshaw Ralla says that the film has 70 VFX shots of CG Goose that had to be blended with scenes of the real Reggie.include the kinetic metro train action sequence, inspired by the classic L-train chase in. This involved filming live-action environments and layering in a CG train before adding a complicated fight scene that takes place on the train's roof.

 

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