Were motion capture sensors used on Robert Pattinson to facilitate the effect?
Fink: No. We did place dots on Robert’s face, which were later painted out, so that we could track the effect to his skin in post production. A model of his face was match moved to his photographed image, and that model carried the new sparkle effect. DM: The effect was extremely successful, creating a glistening appearance of the first rays of sunlight on a new fallen snow. Fink: We spent a great deal of time getting a sense of light scattering in Edward, as well as refining the sparkle itself. DM: In the novel, another significant part of New Moon’s storyline revolves around the appearance of Edward within Bella’s subconscious. The concept of creating Edward as a dissipating apparition was ingenious. How complicated a process was it to bring the vision to fruition? Fink: I’ll leave most of this answer to Eric. But, we tested many possibilities for the apparition effect, finally settling on essentially mapping Edward’s image onto CG flame animation. Eric Pascarelli: Although it took m
