His style was to draw them with really large heads and eyes.
Villegas: Well, Tim Burton’s an artist himself, so he was always sketching designs for the characters. In this interview we focus on the Red Queen shots by talking to Carey Villegas, one of Imageworks’ visual effects supervisors on the film.įxg: How did the Red Queen’s character come to have such a large head? One such character is the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) who appears on screen with an enormous and imposing head care of visual effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks. The incredibly tweaky March Hare (voiced by Paul Whitehouse) is also a joy.īut Burton has beefed up the original story so that it feels less personal and more like the many action films about young, maturing heroes who must slay a giant villain.Tim Burton’s re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland features a cast of real and digital characters, plus some that are in-between.
There are elegant moments - the overhead shot of Alice shrinking into the billows of her dress, or the great, big slobbering tongue of the beastly Bandersnatch. Credit also goes to the visual effects of Ken Ralston and the costumes of Colleen Atwood. Much of its design is wonderfully imaginative - surely the biggest draw of the movie. It’s not fuel for upright adulthood, but “the simple and loving heart of her childhood.”īurton’s film is not lacking whimsy. The take-home lesson of Carroll’s tale is something quite different. By the end, she confidently returns to begin, of all things, a business endeavor in China. There’s triumph over the “dominion over living things” practiced by the cruel, bigheaded Red Queen (a brilliantly thin-skinned Helena Bonham Carter), and there’s Alice’s girl power. Burton’s “Alice” reflects today’s times more than Carroll’s era.
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