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SТRAUSЕ: The baby was shot in camera.

And my understanding is from David, there were performance issues...

...where with any of those kind of physical effects, you don't have the control.

You get the realism. You get real wet-skin look.

And, you know, it's really there in the real lighting.

And the other actors get to cue their performances off of it.

And those are all great benefits of those kind of special effects done on set.

However, trying to get the subtlety...

...of an infant's performance...

...getting, uh, just the little corners of the mouth to turn up in a smile.

And to, you know, get all those kind of subtleties is very difficult.

So we actually took the live-action element that was shot...

...used it as a lighting reference.

And then we entirely created the infant in СG.

We laser-scanned the one that was created practically.

Тhen worked on adding wrinkling...

...and the kind of shar-pei look that everyone talked about.

Luckily, a couple of the guys working on the shot, including my brother...

...have very young kids.

So they used a lot of their own personal experience over the last year and a half.

We also, you know, we just grabbed lots of baby reference.

Because the smile was a very important beat.

And, you know, luckily, you're able to get these days, you know--

Pretty easy to obtain really good reference of babies smiling.

One of the interesting challenges that we had with the baby...

...was, you can easily make it look like an old man...

...and not make it look like an old infant.

Keeping the right infant physical characteristics...

...but also conveying that it's not some sort of tissue defect to that...

...but that it looks, in fact, like, you know, an aged old man.