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2017, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen were cast to play Timon and Pumbaa, respectively.[27] In July 2017, John Oliver was cast as Zazu.[28] In August 2017, Alfre Woodard and John Kani were announced to play Sarabi and Rafiki, respectively.[29][30]Earlier in March 2017, it was announced that Beyoncé Knowles-Carter was Favreau's top choice for the role of Nala and that the director and studio would be willing to do whatever it took to accommodate her busy schedule.[31] Later on November 1, 2017, her role was confirmed in an official announcement,[32][33] which also confirmed that Chiwetel Ejiofor would play the role of Scar, and announced that Eric André, Florence Kasumba, and Keegan-Michael Key would be the voices of Azizi, Shenzi, and Kamari while JD McCrary and Shahadi Wright Joseph would be the voices of young Simba and young Nala, respectively.[34][35][36][37][38] In November 2018, Amy Sedaris was announced as having been cast in a role created for the film.[39] Director Jon Favreau stated that the film's predominantly black cast was a timely update that brought greater authenticity to the film's African inspirations.[40]Visual effectsThe Moving Picture Company, the lead vendor on The Jungle Book, provided the visual effects, which were supervised by Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, and Adam Valdez.[41] The film uses "virtual-reality tools", according to Legato.[42] Virtual Production Supervisor Girish Balakrishnan said on his professional website that the filmmakers used motion capture and VR/AR technologies.[43] According to Favreau, MPC worked together with tech firms Magnopus and Unity Technologies to build the film's technology platform using the Unity game engine.[44]MPC was in charge of all the VFX shots for the film. There are 1,490 VFX shots.[45] The animals were designed from art and photo references. From that, the characters were built; all the rigging, shapes, textures, and furs were rendered step-by-step for further improvement. After that, the animation of the animals was crafted by hand, based on the reference clips. The movements, muscles, eyes, facial expressions, and the way the animals breathe was animated for more than 30 species. The environment was created entirely in CGI from reference materials such as high-definition photos of the African landscape. All the FX simulations—such as water, dirt and fire—were created by combining VR technology with cameras shots so that scenes could be digitally built within a VR-simulated environment.[24] New software developed for the movie made it possible to create scenes with the shaky-cam look of a handheld camera.[46] Sean Bailey, Disney's President of Production, said of the film's visual effects, "It's a new form of filmmaking. Historical definitions don't work. It uses some techniques that would traditionally be called animation, and other techniques that would traditionally be called live action. It is an evolution of the technology Jon [Favreau] used in Jungle Book".[47]Rather than have animators do everything, the team used artificial intelligence to allow virtual characters to behave in ways that mimicked real animals.[48] The sole non-animated shot in the entire film is the sunrise in the opening scene.[45][49]MusicBeyoncé produced The Lion King: The Gift, an
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