“By removing the one physical element of Mowgli, we were no longer tethered to the fact that we had to have blue screen or an actual set or real cameras, so everything became virtual at that point. To allow Favreau to direct CGI shots as he would on a real set, Disney built a realtime VR renderer for the film’s environments: With The Lion King, everything in the shot is now computer generated. This is a normal way to introduce a new technology but it limits what the director can do compared to a fully computer generated shot. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the director Jon Favreau revealed how he actually directed the film in VR.ĭisney’s previous remakes of classic titles, such as The Jungle Book, mixed real actors and sets with CGI objects and environments. Disney is releasing a photorealistic CGI remake of 1994 classic The Lion King this summer.
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