Rocket Raccoon VFX Breakdown For James Gunn's Guardians Of The Galaxy

Framestore, is a visual effects company that worked on  Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. They have now released a VFX breakdown revealing how Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) was developed and animated for the film.

"If you exaggerate his performance and make him too cartoony you've lost the audience but if you go too real you'll end up with something that isn't entertaining or doesn't do Bradley's voice justice," explains Animation Supervisor Kevin Spruce. "James Gunn instinctively had a gut feeling of what was right for Rocket. He often wanted to keep him casual and low-key, rather than over-acted. He was very big on the fact that when you shoot live action the actors don't always look at each other when they're talking, whereas there's a tendency for animators to always make characters face who they're talking to. The animation team worked hard to get all that observational detail into Rocket and became really intuitive to what he would do in any situation."

Check out their Rocket VFX reel in the video below.

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will arrive in theaters May 5, 2017.