![]() ![]() ![]() Keda saves Alpha by using the bow to kill the lion with the arrow, although Alpha is badly wounded in the fight and now travels with difficulty. However, inside they are confronted and attacked by another cave lion, causing Alpha to violently fight the animal. Later, they take refuge from a pack of cave hyenas inside a cave. Alpha helps rescue him and they are reunited.Ĭontinuing the journey together, they find a man who has frozen to death outside his tent and scavenge a bow and arrow from it. Recognizing Alpha, he runs to them, but the ice breaks and he falls through. On a frozen lake, he encounters a pack of wolves feeding on a carcass. Keda continues his journey alone as the season changes into winter. The pack run off and with Keda's blessing, Alpha joins them. Upon seeing Alpha, who steps forward to greet them, they recognize Keda's companion. One night, they are approached menacingly by a pack of wolves. Along the way, Keda names the wolf Alpha. Their relationship grows, and they learn to hunt animals together. He sets out for the village without the wolf, but it follows him. Gradually gaining the wolf's trust, he gives it water and then food, establishing himself as dominant by feeding himself first. Keda takes pity on it and cares for its injury. Keda is later attacked and chased by a pack of ferocious wolves, but escapes up a tree and wounds one of the pack members which the others leave behind. Seeing the memorial cairn left by his tribe, he realizes he must travel back to the village by himself. He survives and splints his injured foot before returning to the top of the cliff. Losing his grip, Keda falls into the water. A sudden heavy rainfall causes the ravine below to flood. He kills the bird by wringing its neck and tries to climb the rest of the way down the cliff. Keda is awoken by a vulture who mistakes him for dead. The tribe leaves and Tau performs another funeral ritual, stricken with grief. Tau attempts to climb down to him, but he is stopped by fellow hunter Sigma who assures him in good faith that Keda is dead and there would be no way to reach him nonetheless. Keda loses his grip and plummets to a further ledge where he appears to break his leg and is knocked unconscious. Amidst the chaos, the bull rushes towards Keda and tosses him over the edge, leaving him gripping the rough cliff edge with his hand. The hunters eventually reach a herd of steppe bison, which they attempt to stampede off a cliff in relative success. ![]() Kappa is given a memorial service in the form of a cairn to symbolize the passing of one's spirit to the afterlife. Hearing the fatal struggle in the darkness, the tribe gives him up for dead. One night, the party's fire draws the attention of a large cave lion, which lunges through their circle, snatching Kappa before anyone can do anything. Tau tests Keda by having him kill a wild boar they've caught, but Keda hesitates. His wife Rho worries that Keda is not ready, but Tau believes he is and the hunters set out. Tau, its chief, trains his teenage son Keda, accepting him and Keda's friend Kappa to join the hunting party. Not a Before/After, but a shot of some cute litter mates taken from the film.In Upper Paleolithic Europe 20,000 years ago, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers prepare for a hunting expedition to hunt for the coming winter's food. Here are some more wolf-tastic before and after shots of MPC's handiwork to enjoy. This was done by creating a digital version of Chuck using MPC’s proprietary software Furtility, which created its groom and rigged it with anatomically correct skeleton and muscles for realistic movement. MPC offered a variety of solutions on the project, including full take over where the full performance wasn't working, and facial performance enhancements where the intensity of a snarl or direction of the eye line needed to be changed. Obviously Chuck wasn't used for the above shots of the baby Alpha, but you can see him in this nice Before and After below. The effects were handled by VFX studio MPC, the masterminds behind Blade Runner 2049's seamless restoration of a certain returning android, who created a digital wolf for Alpha using a Czechoslovakian wolf dog called Chuck. These two Below and After shots below will show you what we mean. You may not have heard of recent live-action ice age adventure Alpha, but this tale of a hunter-gatherer taming a lone wolf made use of some nice VFX and distinctly un-wolf like stand-ins in order to create the titular creature. How MPC created the titular hero of ice age drama Alpha using some cute breeds and a little VFX magic. ![]()
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