A lot of what this article talks about rings true in a presentation I watched recently by the team at Weta Digital which did the VFX for The Batman
They talked about, among other things, how they had to:
- digitally replace the stunt man's face in many of the action shots because his jawline was too dissimilar to Robert Pattinson's.
- digitally modify a hand because a prop gun misfired in a shot
- enhance the fight scenes to look more visceral and violent
- add rain and rain spatter to the car chase (the parts that weren't already fully digital)
I'm no filmmaker but I felt many of those things could have been done without VFX. Hire a stunt man that looks more like RP, reshoot the scene with the broken prop, forget about rain and/or tone down the epic action set piece, etc.
Instead it seemed like it all just came to rest on the shoulders of the VFX artists.
They talked about, among other things, how they had to:
- digitally replace the stunt man's face in many of the action shots because his jawline was too dissimilar to Robert Pattinson's.
- digitally modify a hand because a prop gun misfired in a shot
- enhance the fight scenes to look more visceral and violent
- add rain and rain spatter to the car chase (the parts that weren't already fully digital)
I'm no filmmaker but I felt many of those things could have been done without VFX. Hire a stunt man that looks more like RP, reshoot the scene with the broken prop, forget about rain and/or tone down the epic action set piece, etc.
Instead it seemed like it all just came to rest on the shoulders of the VFX artists.