Alice in Wonderland : The Big Reveal part 2 (The Knave Progression)

For “The `Alice in Wonderland’ Big Reveal Part 2, Disney shows the step-by-step process of digitally creating the Ilosovic Stayne, Knave of Hearts before our eyes!

ILOSOVIC STAYNE, THE KNAVE OF HEARTS (Crispin Glover) is the head of the Red Queen’s Army. Seven feet, six-inches tall, with a scarred face and a heart-shaped patch covering his left eye, Stayne is an arrogant, tricky character who follows the Red Queen’s every order. He’s the only one capable of pacifying her and calming her dramatic mood swings. “I am the martial element for the Red Queen,” says Glover. “The Red Queen has a fair amount of short-tempered reactions to things that people do, and so my character has to be quite diplomatic.” His darker side emerges in the shadows of the castle hallways.(more below)



Imagery of Stayne, the Knave to the Red Queen, is placed into a preliminary CG environment of the throne room. In the background are basic computer-generated models representing set pieces that have not yet been given final texture or color.


A number of techniques were created to allow the animators at Imageworks to place the photography of Crispin Glover’s (Stayne) head onto a fully computer-generated body.


In the final composite of the scene, the green-screen footage of Stayne’s head is incorporated into the fully computer-generated body and environment, lighting is color corrected and finalized, and the surfaces spring to life when given texture, shadows and reflections.