In 2010, as part of the VFX work on The Wolfman, I was tasked with recreating this in CG. It was a fascinating challenge, and in the end the only way to do it was to recreate each and every layer, and then composite them as if it were an optical. https://twitter.com/thetimdickinson/status/1264630771316404224
I have a memory of having to write some custom glass shaders to get the plexiglass look we wanted. The finished thing, after a trip to the DI looked liked this:
As part of the forensic analysis of the original we were able to get a 4K scan of it, and it is such a beautiful piece of work. I felt very lucky to get to appreciate it with that level of detail.
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