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The fashion-forward look of Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters required what Sony Pictures Imageworks says was a first-of-its-kind attack to animated costuming, pinch each of nan main characters having a immense wardrobe.
Netflix’s animated movie was produced by Sony Pictures Animation and won 2 Oscars. It has been a monolithic streaming deed for Netflix. At Web Summit Vancouver, nan crowd sewage penetration into nan movie’s manner secrets.
“It’s evidently a K-pop movie, and K-pop bands are very fashionable,” said Jacky Priddle, Senior Producer astatine Sony Imageworks, nan VFX and animation section of Sony Pictures. “To execute this look, we did thing that I don’t deliberation has ever been done successful immoderate different animated movie; creating 20 different outfits per woman and a fewer much for nan boys.”
The consequence was a mix-and-match wardrobe that yielded a immense number of outfit possibilities. “We ended up having 75 imaginable combinations of outfits for each girl, which I deliberation is immoderate benignant of a record. In animated movies, you spot nan characteristic ever wearing nan aforesaid outfit because it’s very tricky to create them. But we decided, no, we request to put successful this part, and it needs to beryllium very manner forward.”
KPop Demon Hunters has go Netflix’s astir celebrated movie ever. In nan 2nd half of past year, nan movie racked up 482 cardinal views. Earlier this week Netflix and AEG Presents announced they are teaming to bring K-pop Demon Hunters fans a live experience pinch a world tour.
Priddle explained that nan outfits were cardinal to bringing nan imagination of board Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans to nan screen. “When we first met, Maggie said, this is astir nan girls, this is astir fashion. She wasn’t truthful alert of nan surroundings, nan environment. It was much that these girls person to beryllium apical of their game. No-one wears nan aforesaid outfit twice.”
Despite nan elaborate wardrobes, nan filmmakers besides wanted nan characters to consciousness grounded, balancing glamour pinch much mundane moments.
“They tin beryllium glamorous, but they tin besides beryllium like, hey, without makeup, successful their pajamas,” Priddle said. “We really were pursuing what nan board were wanting to do astir nan portrayal of women. Especially our director, Maggie, she was very adamant astir women not being these benignant of dainty princesses. We’d show 1 of nan girls without their constitution connected and she’d beryllium saying, “Make them much tired.” Usually it’s much like, “No, you’ve gone excessively far.”
Expect much outfits successful nan adjacent KPop Demon Hunters movie. Netflix has confirmed a sequel, pinch Kang and Appelhans returning to direct.
