Special Effects
Reportedly $15 million of the $80 million budget was spent on special effects. Producers didn’t want The Mummy to look like the original so they developed a new look before filming even started. John Andrew Berton, Jr., the Industrial Light & Magic’s Visual Effects Supervisor, said “[The Mummy was] to be mean, tough, nasty, something that had never been seen by audiences before”. Berton used motion capture in order to achieve “a menacing and very realistic Mummy”.
Special Effects
An Experience
In order to create the Mummy, Berton combined live action and computer graphics. He also matched digital prosthetic make-up pieces on Arnold Vosloo’s face during filming. Berton explained, “When you see his film image, that’s him. When he turns his head and half of his face is missing and you can see right through on to his teeth, that’s really his face. And that’s why it was so hard to do.” Vosloo described filming as a “whole new thing” for him as, “They had to put these little red tracking lights all over my face so they could map in the special effects. A lot of the time I was walking around the set looking like a Christmas tree.”
An Experience
