In one key sequence where Xavier, (Patrick Stewart) has a psionic seizure, Reagan had a chance to try out a new Perception Neuron motion capture suit made by Noitom. “We took that in Jim’s office, and we stayed late one night, after everybody had left. We set up our suit. We laid out Jim’s main room as the hotel room, as close as the production designer had known at that point. We motion captured us walking through this scene and just figuring out the distances, the time, how long it would take, how much space we needed to make the scene work so that it wasn’t boring. We were trying to create this effect that Charles Xavier was crippling everyone’s minds and crushing their minds, but Logan was fighting against it. Jim had [explained] this effect as: his muscles don’t want to move, but he’s forcing them,” Reagan details.
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