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Production style: VFX supervisor and Orphanage co-founder Stu Maschwitz mixes final DI into the effects process to help create the stylized look of The Spirit.(VFX/Post)

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The radical innovation for Lionsgate's The Spirit is not the stylized look director Frank Miller chose for his film adaptation of Will Eisner's comic book series, although it's likely that style will capture the most attention. The Spirit's muted colors and stark black-and-white contrasts provide a subtle variation to the filmmaking aesthetic introduced with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, one in which digital backgrounds created by visual effects studios surround actors filmed on greenscreen stages. It's a style particularly suited for lifting graphic novels onto the big screen, as the graphic and gritty Sin City and painterly 300, ...

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