One Piece stretches reality

One Piece stretches reality

There is a cartoony aesthetic to the One Piece manga and anime where the main character is rubbery but when it comes to live-action adaptation the visual effects still had to be grounded in some sort of reality to be believable. This was an interesting challenge for Visual Effects Supervisor Victor Scalise (Cowboy Beebop).

It’s truly a fine balance because if you make it too cartoony the fans might love it, but then the general audience might think it’s too much. When we first came on everybody said, ‘We didn’t want him [Monkey D. Luffy] to be like Plastic Man.’

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