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After selecting the best poses and figure out what would work for film, they decided the character, played on set by actor Doug Jones, would need to be completely CG.
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The crew began by visiting a Wellington comicbook store and snapping up every Silver Surfer story they could get their hands on. "In this movie, it seemed like every sequence had completely different effects, so it was a lot of R&D time for such a short turnaround," Saindon says. With a deadline of April 20 to complete around 300 shots, the schedule was especially tight given the diversity of effects the 110-member crew had to complete. Vfx supervisor Eric Saindon says the shop landed the job in late 2006, but didn't have plates until the end of January. The biggest challenge facing Weta was time. Such was the case with the Silver Surfer, a beloved fixture of Marvel Comics since 1966, who has at long last come to the big screen in Fox's Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, courtesy of New Zealand-based Weta Digital. Comicbook movies are unique for the opportunity to bring to life iconic characters that have often existed only on the page for decades.