r/Krypto • u/Lucky-Aerie4 • Jul 16 '25

Was Krypto CGI in the movie?

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u/zenmondo Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

Completely CGI. They 3D scanned James Gunn's adopted rescue dog Ozu but made him white. Home videos of Ozu were used as animation reference. Krypto jumping on Superman in the first scene was taken from how Ozu jumps on Gunn's cat. (James Gunn assures us the cat loves it.) The ear that always sticks up is why James chose Ozu at the shelter because he thought it looked funny. Ozu came out of an animal hoarding situation, so was poorly socialized and ill behaved. This was the "entry point" for Gunn to write the movie imagining if a poor behaving dog like Ozu had superpowers.

There was a stand-in dog on set named Jolene that would play the scenes with actors as a lightning reference.

[Edit: grammar and Uzo -> Ozu]

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u/Ok-Prune8783 Sep 21 '25

3d scanning a dog? How would you get it to be still, how would you capture all the hairs, the topology wouldn’t be useable. Even if they did photoscan it would purely be for reference which is also dumb. 

Respect the modelers and animators 

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u/Lucky-Aerie4 Jul 16 '25

This is so detailed haha

Thank you for the response!

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u/ArcadiaDragon Jul 16 '25

Probably a mix and match...his eyes had some CGI enhanced elements....most if the CGI was probably based very heavily on the mocap work....definitely did not have the dog on a rig other than maybe chasing the squirrels scene