On Resurgence, the work was radically different. All those elements were then combined with then state-of-the-art equipment like Infernos, Cineons and Dominos. “We had storyboards and a project management database that my business partner Marc Weigert had developed. To shoot the miniatures took about nine months with up to four camera crews working parallel. It had to be meticulously planned,” Engel says of the work on that first film, which was made without the digital previsualization tools commonly used today. “ VFX co-supervisor Doug Smith and I shot about 4,000 different scale-model elements and tabletop miniatures. 'Independence Day: Resurgence' Makes a Marketing Misstep With All-Too-Real Apocalyptic Site
We were discussing the shooting schedule for the coming week, which sounded like, ‘Are we blowing up the Capitol on Wednesday and White House on Friday - or was that Thursday?’ Only then we realized that the guests at the other tables had stopped eating and were staring at us.
Looking back, Engel admits that he didn’t quite realize what he was getting into when he signed up for the original. “In the beginning and with just a screenplay, it was difficult to imagine the scope we were dealing with,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “At some point during the miniature shoot, a group of us had lunch in an Italian restaurant close to the stages.
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“This is movie magic,” Engel said as he accepted the Oscar. The first Independence Day, with a cast led by Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, became the top-grossing movie of 1996, taking in $817.4 million worldwide, and its depiction of an alien ship zapping the White House to bits became part of the popular culture.
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