Flying Reindeer

摘要

You might be able to buy the premise of the film Filed Claus, that Santa has a scallywag of an older brother named Fred (Vince Vaughn), but no Christmas comedy would be complete without reindeer, Santa's sleigh, and elves. A crew of approximately 35 people at Cinesite spent about a year helping Santa's reindeer pull a sleigh from Chicago to the North Pole and applying visual effects wizardry to one of his elves. Originally, seven real reindeer on the set were going to pull the sleigh, but it was too heavy. "It was the size of an SUV," says visual effects supervisor Simon Stanley-Clamp.