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36 cgw o c t o b e r • n o v e m b e r • d e c e m b e r 2 0 2 1 ments — outdoors, inside, in an abandoned taxi — but Baron says the shots where he climbs on Yorick were the most challenging. "Ben did an amazing job on-set because he had nothing to interact with on the day, yet his performance really meshed well with Ampersand," Baron notes. "There was no placeholder on set for our monkey, so Ben was always pretending to make eye contact with Ampersand and move as if a 10-pound monkey was climbing on him." The animation was careful with the posi- tioning and timing of Ampersand and how he might react to any small movements Ben might have made. While Amp is suggested to weigh only 10 pounds, Yorick's garments had to deform and shi beneath him. "We studied and shot references of real garments deforming and being grabbed like a monkey would do," notes Baron. "Our com- positing team surprised all of us with some clever integrations that really grounded Ampersand in the shots." "Most sequences were challenging in their own right, but certain shots across the episodes were quite long and had Amper- sand front and center in-camera," adds Michael Beaulieu, ILM animation supervisor. "Those are the 'nowhere to hide shots' for VFX artists. In the animation, we had to be sure that everything Amp did was photo- real and based heavily on reference of real capuchins. For the closer shots, it meant a micro-level of detail in his eyes, brows, finger, and toes. Even breathing was layered in. From a complexity standpoint, whenever Amp interacted with an actor or a part of the practical set, the challenge fell to lighting and compositing artists to manipulate what Amp was touching or sitting on, to sell his weight pushing into an object and deform- ing it. We'd animate the action first, to drive the interaction and get the timing down. 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