• 4 months ago
Get ready to embark on an exclusive journey behind the scenes as we delve into the intricate designing process of the imaginary friends featured in the whimsical fantasy comedy movie "IF." This highly anticipated film, directed by the multi-talented John Krasinski, showcases the charismatic Ryan Reynolds in a starring role. In this captivating exploration, we'll uncover the creative magic and meticulous craftsmanship that brought these fantastical characters to life. From initial sketches and conceptual art to the final animations and special effects, discover the innovative techniques and artistic vision that transformed mere ideas into the enchanting imaginary companions!

IF Cast:

Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Steve Carell, Louis Gossett Jr., Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Bobby Moynihan, Alan Kim, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Sebastian Maniscalco, Christopher Meloni, Awkwafina, Jon Stewart and Richard Jenkins

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Transcript
00:00You sure you want to do this there's no telling who's behind that door today all the ifs there are so many of them
00:06We were lucky because there's so many characters are developed
00:08I was writing the ideas of these characters
00:10And then we had an incredible art team that was drawing these characters as fast as I could think them up
00:15Are any of them scary worse?
00:19Desperate
00:23Really bend those knees ladies
00:25What I liked about the story was definitely big ifs I like their imaginations like don't hold back
00:32There's something from John's imagination or his childhood reading
00:35They're all characters who have a historic relationship to anybody brought up in the 80s or 90s
00:41There's the core ifs you are the chosen one. Oh, no, let's not give her a complex
00:46There's some recurring ones that are eccentric and funny that show up from time to time
00:50Put some pants on you're freaking everyone out when I was doing research for the film
00:54It was really interesting to read up on the child psychology aspect to imaginary friends kids invent imaginary friends
01:00Not only as a playmate or something fun
01:03But it's also usually a projection of some trauma whether it's a move whether it's a new school whether it's losing a parent
01:09They actually create these characters as coping mechanisms. How do you make an imaginary friend specific to a kid?
01:16My job is to bring all the characters to life with the direction and the inspiration we get from John and from an animator's
01:24Perspective they all very different. They all have unique quirks and performances. Oh
01:31First you see you here blue is really lovely
01:38My idea for blue came from an experience with my daughter violet who used to tell me that my favorite color was purple even though
01:45My favorite color was clearly blue and after two years I buckled and now purple is my favorite color
01:50So I thought wouldn't it be fun to put that joke in the movie where this is a clearly purple character
01:55Whose name is blue all because his kid was colorblind
02:01I don't know blue is a purple pom-pom
02:06Essentially, he's the most huggable thing in the entire world. He's just full of joy
02:11Blue needs to feel furry and touchable and huggable, but it's very big
02:14We have tools to manipulate his body or get some funny gags of his head stuck in somewhere
02:20And that's the fun bit of it because sometimes he has to be like this
02:23His head is gonna hit the ceiling and needs to be compressed like that
02:27Well done blue
02:28Now let's start over. Oh, yeah blossom. She's gorgeous devilish style adorable accent
02:35She likes to make tea. She's very calm and collected and she can dance
02:41pop twist
02:43Blossom is a homage to Fletcher cartoons
02:45It needs to live in a contemporary world
02:47But still keeping that appeal in those old cartoons
02:52The idea of blossom came to me because it was important to say that the people who create these imaginary friends were all kids at
02:58One point so blossom was invented by someone in the 50s
03:02We actually designed her to be kind of an old-school cartoon
03:06So even though you grow up that imaginary friend is still gonna be locked in that time frame
03:11Lewis is the head if he is the first imaginary friend to say I know you're all sad that your kids can't see you anymore
03:18So let's create a place where we can all live together and commiserate together all kids need their imaginary friends
03:25Especially when they grow up
03:27So he creates an imaginary friend retirement community and that retirement community lives under Coney Island
03:34Which you will find out has a very special place in Lewis's heart
03:37My
03:40Kids are all over the movie my seven-year-old daughter
03:43Violet's imaginary friend is Allie who is a pink alligator that lives under the bed
03:47I said, are you scared of Allie and Violet said why would I be scared of Allie?
03:51She's under the bed to protect me from bad guys and I went okay
03:53So Allie's in the movie all kids are scared of the dark cuz those nightlights don't do anything
04:00My daughter Hazel we were sitting around a campfire a long time ago
04:04And when you first are exploring the world of s'mores you realize very quickly that you can't leave the marshmallow in for too long
04:10Or it lights on fire and falls into the fire
04:13Hazel thought that was one of the funniest things ever
04:15So she invented an imaginary friend who was a marshmallow that the top of it is always on fire
04:23There are so many more ifs there's a unicorn magic mouse
04:29Guardian dog. All right, that's it. I got this
04:32There's a early 80s robot toy they get building me but we never got lasers to shoot out of my eyes
04:40Octocat is a cat who dresses up as an octopus and is obsessed with being underwater
04:45There's Cosmo who's this film noir detective who just overreacts to everything. I can find anyone
04:53It was really fun to dive in of why kids come up with these ifs
04:56It's like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. What are the right ingredients?
05:00So when you put all of them together, it's just like it it worked pretty good. It's been really fun playing around in that world
05:07Keith
05:10Kind of a kid creates an invisible if

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