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are based on real constellations,
whether it's Cetus, the sea monster...
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or Draco, the dragon, or what have you.
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And this sequence went through
many iterations...
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before we finally settled on this one.
Originally, Eris even had another god...
:01:15
Janus, who sort of served
as her foil in all of this.
:01:18
But in order to draw
the conflict more sharply...
:01:21
between Sinbad and the gods,
we chose just one villain here, Eris.
:01:27
It's sort of an exposition scene...
:01:28
a scene in which we have to set up
a lot of rules of our world...
:01:31
and boy, did we have exposition
at one point.
:01:33
Eris was practically reading
an encyclopedia...
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to tell us everything about the world.
:01:38
But we found a way to cut to the quick
and have Eris simply set up her scheme.
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And visually, we had a lot of
different passes of this as well...
:01:46
because we even had a version
where it wasn't Cetus, the sea monster...
:01:49
it was a fire-breathing bull
that we threw into the water.
:01:53
Yeah, we killed Taurus at one point.
:01:56
Eris realized Taurus couldn't swim...
:01:58
and didn't make a very good villain
in an ocean movie, so she had to reset.
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Quick introductions of all of our crew.
:02:05
We'll spend more time
with them as the movie unfolds.
:02:07
But the challenge in opening a film...
:02:09
is you want to
get to know these guys pretty fast.
:02:11
So we polished this one in different ways
and ultimately settled on this.
:02:15
Meeting them through action
rather than dialogue.
:02:17
Let's get Sinbad into the thick of things.
:02:20
Early on in the film,
this is the first big technical challenge...
:02:24
that we had as far as design
with our CG environment, with water...
:02:28
and getting these boats done.
So these are fully 3D painted boats...
:02:32
with reusable cameras
that Damon could use.
:02:35
And technically
the 3D water to get a graphic look...
:02:38
was a very challenging
and time-consuming way to go.
:02:42
But beautiful, the way it turned out.
:02:47
And Damon and team had fun with
the camera throughout the action scenes.
:02:50
We really set a sort of live-action standard...
:02:52
as what we wanted to do
with the cinematography.
:02:55
This opening sequence is great
'cause it's got a lot of cinematic energy.
:02:59
For us, it was pretty complex,
combining the 2D and the 3D...