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In the 1996 cult classic, a widower named Frank Bannister (Michael J.
It was a unique tale that presented grief in a relatable, but surprisingly lighthearted, manner.
The only problem was, back in 1996, nobody knew how to capture death visually onscreen.
They originally tried to create him as a puppet, which you could shoot on a green screen.
So, we just decided to scrap that.
Instead, theFrightenersteam ended up writing a new code to bring the character to life.
He took on the challenge of doing flying cloth, Jackson says.
As far as Im aware, that was the first time that anyone had done it on the computer.
He created it, he wrote the code.
Compared to our puppet one, his CGI one was so much better.
According to Horsfield, it was more of a hack than a code.
He used multiple computer programs to create the Reaper, each for a different function.
The cloth really came about by tricking a particle system.
