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MJ : Right. We saw videos online of attack dogs, German Shepherds and Alsatians that just leap, teeth first, at their target. So throughout the movie, there are an awful lot of bites and leaps where you go from a human performer, whether a stunt person or experimental dancer, to a fully CG character for that moment of leap. We were trying to keep it looking realistic. You have to impart the correct sense of weight, and physics. This movie if firmly set in the real world.

The laws of physics have to apply. We needed to make sure that in our animation, we were able to do that in a realistic way. Not that I know what that actually looks like. Tell me a little about how you animated and made the zombies? MJ : There are some rather unforgiving scenes we had to do.

For example, where the girl leaps and smashes her head through the windshield of the RV and drags the guy out. It was almost a visual effects nightmare scenario. We had a whole scanning pipeline and an onset photography pipeline. If it was yellow, that meant that zombie should be recorded for reference. If it was green, they needed to be photographed and scanned. We had this whole separate village setup where we were scanning people a day. While I was onset making the movie, there was this whole other team scanning and photographing and moving people on turntables.

Antony and his team had spent a lot of time working on flesh and hair sims. For example, the girl who is biting on Ryan, she has long dark hair which is flying and flopping around. MJ : It was. But I was never aware of it because it worked so well. Onset we had two units working. Each had a dedicated group of trackers, match movers, things like that. The movie style is all hand-held.

All things that make our lives a little bit tricky. Each camera had to have zoom encoders built onto it. All the data from that had to be logged. We had teams running witness cameras. It was a 24x7 operation. When we finished shooting, the scanning team rolled in and worked through the night, scanning locations everywhere from the town center of Glasgow to the old streets of Malta.

It was pretty busy. In post, I spent my entire life locked in a darkroom [laughs] so I never got to see just how many people we had working on everything. Key people were Andy Robinson, who was my digital effects supervisor, Thomas Dyg who was my environment supervisor, Antony Zwartouw who was the CG supervisor.

We were unified in our desire to keep it as real and subtle and photographed as possible. DS : As far as the environments, tell us about the scenes in Philadelphia and the New Jersey rooftop. Why would you choose Glasgow of all places to transform into Philadelphia? MJ : Essentially, Glasgow stood in for Philadelphia. Glasgow is similar to Philadelphia in some respects. I was trying to create a weird fusion between the two places that kept some sense of reality.

When I got to Philadelphia, I had in my mind a logic of how the two locations would work together. This is the square in Glasgow…this square in Philadelphia looks very similar.

We made sure that when we were adding in buildings, we were adding in Union Station and other buildings that in reality would be in Philadelphia.

The Comcast Tower and things like that are all geographically in the place they would be if it were Philadelphia. Nobody would probably ever care, but there was a lot of work making sure it all properly blended together. Aviv [Yaron] and I went to Philadelphia and spent a great week on various rooftops. Aviv was on an endless series of scissor-lifts.

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Central Scotland Police. Filming for the movie has been taking place in Glasgow city centre. Ahead of schedule. Glasgow was chosen to double as the Pennsylvanian city because of the huge similarities between them including the architecture, wide roads and grid layout of the cities. Ready for your close-up, Mr Pitt?

Brad is directed as he prepares for what could be a car chase scene. Buckle up: Brad gives one last look out of the car door before shooting the scene. On film: The star is seen stuck in a traffic jam and a police motorbike knocks his wing mirror off - so he gets out to get the smashed mirror back. The film Brad's latest film is a post-apocalyptic horror film based on the novel of the same name by Max Brooks. Brad plays Brooks who scours the world collecting the stories and experiences of those who have survived ten years after the human victory over the world wide zombie epidemic.

Read all about it: Crew members carry American newspaper boxes on to the set. The means streets of Philadelphia: Glasgow is unrecognisable as yellow taxis and American cars line the city's roads. Reclaiming the streets: Crew members climb aboard a cherry picker to put up American road signs. Brad arrived in the city yesterday with partner Angelina Jolie and their six children - Maddox, 10, Pax, seven, Zahara, six, Siloh, five and three-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox - having chartered a Virgin train from London.

Forces united: A Glaswegian police officer looks inside a white Philadelphia police car. Coming through: An actor playing an American traffic cop weaves his way through the taxis. The A-list couple and their six children were snapped arriving at Euston station this morning in a large black people carrier and surrounded by bodyguards and members of their entourage. When they arrived in Glasgow at 2. In character: Actors dressed as a policeman and a homeless man get ready for their scenes.

Who ordered the meat? Locals stand around and watch the action as a delivery truck arrives on set. Speaking to the Scottish Sun, a fan who had been waiting for them to arrive said: 'There were dozens of screaming fans waiting patiently for a glimpse. After all, it's not every day you can say you've seen a Hollywood movie star in Glasgow Central Station.

But even the kids had their heads down. The couple are believed to be staying the Carnell Estate Mansion near Kilmarnock and will make the 16th century home theirs for their next few weeks.

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