I've heard that most of the "great abs" on the extras in the movie "300" were faked..if yes, how was it done?

Question

I know the main charactor, the king was in fabulous shape and I assume the men in his army that were major players in the film were also in fab shape but someone actually said they could see the paint or body plates on the rest.

Answer 1

my husban is in the entertainment business, and he said those guys worked out for a year 6 grueling hours a day, and they may hav have powder to highlight there muscles but that was all there bodies.

Answer 2

Most of the movie was CGI, including arrows, fight scenes, and yes, the actors/actresses. Like it's been said before, the whole movie was shot in a wharehouse, and in a back issue of Popular Mechanics, the go through the whole process, as well as what's being developed for future movies.
When you're trying to enhance someone digitally, you first have to get a basic frame of the person through a whole-body scan. Newer versions of this have the actors putting on some weird kind of make-up or gel on specific parts of their body (abs for example), then when the computer has finished scanning them, the engineers can manipulate the image. Think of it as Photoshop for a moving image, with no effect on what the original model looked like. (Too bad we can't do that for certain people)

Answer 3

They worked out, but they also airbrushed the abs. You can airbrush body parts with highlights and shadows to sligthly make features look slightly bigger or smaller.

Answer 4

They were airbrushed on. I heard Sylvester Stallone's were also in Rocky Balboa.

Answer 5

it was all CGI just like the background shots and all that, the entire film was made in a warehouse, with minimal props

Answer 6

They are real, amazingly. You can find the "making of" workout videos of them lifting tractor tires and such.

Answer 7

I have yet to see it but I am looking forward to going to see it.