Interview with Alexis Wajsbrot.
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00:00So it's not an attack to design all these different rocket records at different age.
00:07And definitely there were a bit of trail and error of finding what is the right look.
00:13And so we definitely had some concepts, some great concepts, sketches from the art department at Marvel that always provide some great starting points.
00:22So we know roughly what age we need to eat, basically, but they are just sketches.
00:27They are not yet photoreal.
00:30James Gunn and Steph also had this chart where you see all the different sides they want Rocket Raccoon to be during the movie.
00:37So we had some information to start with.
00:40And then we started with modeling the Rocket Runt.
00:45So the one that is supposed to be photoreal, it's supposed to exist in real life.
00:50That's where we started because we had the adults.
00:54And so we said, OK, let's build the Runt.
00:56So we casted a little raccoon that actually Steph, it's a real raccoon that Steph and James had on set of Guardians 1.
01:06They already knew that it was going to be needed for Guardians 3.
01:09So they had pictures.
01:12And so we started that as a starting point because it was really, really cute.
01:15We were very conscious of that as we're, you know, doing the opening credits because it's a much, much more sad and, you know, opening than the previous films.
01:25But also it just tells you what the story is going to be like where we're plunging into it straight away.
01:30It's a darker movie, but it's also, you know, a very hopeful ending, you know, in the end.
01:38But just to come back on what Alexei is saying, I think, you know, not only we can talk about Rocket, but in the flashbacks, there was all these companions, right, that were with him and that have a huge part in the story.
01:50And it's interesting for me because, you know, we were really, because it's the core of the movie, we're really thinking, how do we get the emotion for these scenes?
02:01And talking with James and, you know, trying to figure out what the best way to acquire this was, okay, we're going to do just the first two days of the film and we're going to shoot that the first two days.
02:12And we're going to get all the actors in, you know, Sean playing Rocket, obviously, as he always does.
02:19We don't have Bradley, but all the other actors were the voice actors, the real actors for the role.
02:24And we shot the 15, 20 minutes of flashback, the first two days of principal photography.
02:30And it was really important that we would do that.
02:32And we captured the camera moves that James wanted to capture.
02:37We captured, we did a reference shoot, like film theater, pretty much.
02:41And, you know, all that acting, all that thing got edited by our editors, by Fred Raskin, our editor.
02:49And then got turned over to Framestore.
02:51And really, what I want to emphasize on is that it's really a work that goes from the actors that do their, you know, the best acting they can.
03:02And they're really good.
03:04And watching that edit the first time, I mean, you know, showing it to the guys at Framestore, they were all very emotional.
03:09Just looking at people in gray suits, you know, not even animals.