Is there wirework in Kung Pow?
Budget-wise, we do a limited amount. Honestly, I would have loved to have gone further with it, but I did hit a certain amount of not only budget limitations but footage limitations. The film we were using was a little bit more character based than action based. How long does it take to match yourself into a preexisting fight? It’s really complicated and really fun. You literally have to split it up into its individual shots and you’re just spotting for angles. When is something from behind? We can use all the shots that are behind. Then you’re deciding how much of the set you need to build on the shots you are going to shoot. What angle are we shooting? Clearly we can’t build 360. It’s just like a puzzle and I think the most complicated scene we did wasn’t anything to do with the old movie. It was me fighting the cow. Clearly, there are no cows that stand and fight, so the whole thing had to be boarded out a piece at a time. Jeff Lew, a very talented animator, we hooked up over the ph
