maquette

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With Orville the maquette was not very good so we knew we would need some fantastic maquettes showing Brad aged 80 that the studio could sign off on.

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  1. noun A usually small model of an intended work, such as a sculpture or piece of architecture.

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  • And we commissioned them to make a maquette, or a bust, of Benjamin. —  Ed Ulbrich shows how Benjamin Button got his face
  • We built a maquette and it turned out to be the scene where you first see Benjamin Button as a kid sitting at the dining table banging his spoon. —  fxguide.com
  • Eric Barba: The part that carried over from 2004 was taking a life cast of the actor and from there a maquette is sculpted. —  fxguide.com
  • With Orville the maquette was not very good so we knew we would need some fantastic maquettes showing Brad aged 80 that the studio could sign off on. —  fxguide.com
  • Eric Barba: The baby was a mixture of a live action robotic maquette which was enhanced by Hydraulx I believe. —  fxguide.com
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  1. French, from Italian macchietta, sketch, diminutive of macchia, spot, from Latin macula.

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  1. French, from Italian macchietta, diminutive of macchia, a spot, from Latin macula, a spot: see macula.
 

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