Digital makeup for Mystique
I was reading recently that the grueling makeup process for Mystique was the main reason why Jennifer Lawrence isn't interested in making more x-men films.
It seems like the obvious solution would be to put her in a motion capture suit. Then after filming, bodypaint her (or a body double), scan the costume in, and digitally add the costume onto her.
Are there good reasons why they can't do this?
Best Answer
They did.
They managed to reduce the makeup time, from eight hours to three. They did this by only doing makeup on her face/head, but I guess three hours is still too much (would be for me, at least)
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Lawrence said Mystique's scales were attached first, followed by three layers of blue paint airbrushed onto her, and then another five layers of what the actress called a splattering effect were applied. According to Hannon, it would take six girls about seven hours to paint her full body.Who portrayed Mystique?
Mystique appears in seven of the 20th Century Fox X-Men films: the character was portrayed by Rebecca Romijn in X-Men (2000), X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), while Jennifer Lawrence portrayed a younger version in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark ...Who played Mystique before Jennifer Lawrence?
The X-men marvel movie series consists of 7 films featuring the character of Mystique.Mystique (X-Men) Makeup Transformation - Cosplay Tutorial
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Answer 2
To give it a more realistic view?
CGI costumes don't always look good on screen. You can take an example from Green Lantern, where a full CGI costume was made into a blunder and got criticized a lot. It was even made into a joke by the actor himself in the Deadpool trailer.
Now it can also be argued with the example of Iron-Man where it did worked quite well.
The same thing applies to body paints too. For Two Face they opted for a mixture of CGI and makeup. Now it's up to the director to decide what they want, but overall it can be said that real costume/body paint will look more realistic then CGI.
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