by: Dominic von Riedemann After years of uncertainty, AMPAS has decided that motion capture films are ineligible for the Best Animated Feature Film Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid a 4-year old controversy to rest when they announced that motion-capture films are no longer considered eligible for the Best Animated Feature [...]
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Steven Spielberg on ‘Tintin’: ‘It made me more like a painter than ever before’
July 4th, 2010
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“I just adored it. It made me more like a painter than ever before. I got a chance to do so many jobs that I don’t often do as a director. You get to paint with this device that puts you into a virtual world, and allows you to make your shots and block all [...]
“It’s About Storytelling. It’s About Humans Playing Humans.” -Interview
February 26th, 2010
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James Cameron and Peter Jackson are the kings of the CGI world. Cameron, of course, directed Titanic, the highest-grossing movie of all time—which he says he’d make with no ship if he were filming today. Jackson was the guy behind bringing Middle-earth to the big screen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now they [...]
Do the ‘Avatar’ actors deserve recognition?
February 26th, 2010
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Director James Cameron had many reasons to be happy the morning that this year’s Oscar nominations were announced: His blockbuster movie “Avatar” tied for the most with nine, including best picture and best director. But he was dismayed that his cast, including stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver, was shut out. number of [...]
CG In Another World
February 9th, 2010
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CG In Another World By: Barbara Robertson When we think about the first films to convince directors that visual effects created with computer graphics could open their imaginations, two films immediately come to mind: James Cameron’s The Abyss, in which a transparent CG character communicated with an actor, and Cameron’s Terminator 2, which starred a [...]
James Cameron Performance Capture re-invented AVATAR -Interview
February 8th, 2010
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Astonishing powers leaves nine teens in a bewildering saga of action and sci-fi thrill in I Am Number Four movie Avatar – on the Cutting Edge The director of Terminator and Titanic explains how movies will be transformed by motion-tracking and 3D technology Three-time Academy Award-winning director James Cameron is a pioneer in the field [...]
Joe Letteri Talks Digital Acting and 3D Environments
November 7th, 2009
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Bill Desowitz speaks with Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri about staying on the cutting edge of digital acting and 3D environments at Weta Digital. After winning an Oscar for vfx on King Kong, Joe Letteri has remained at Weta Digital to supervise work on The Water Horse (Sony/Revolution, Dec. 7, 2007), including the CG [...]
Making It Real: The Future of Stereoscopic 3D Film Technology –Interview
November 3rd, 2009
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In this initial feature for the launch of SIGGRAPH Quarterly’s online magazine, Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Rob Engle and Rob Bredow discuss the subject of stereoscopic 3D film production and presentation, and offer their ideas as to where this increasingly important technology may be heading in the future. Article author: Eden Ashley Umble All images courtesy [...]
Massive Software Facial Fuzzy Logic Animation –Videos
October 27th, 2009
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Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss
October 27th, 2009
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Andy Serkis is the reigning master of performance for motion-capture — the recording of an actor’s every move and facial nuance for use by animators to enliven CG characters. In his acclaimed star turns as the ring-addicted Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the noble mega-ape in King Kong, 43-year-old Serkis invested [...]
THE FUTURE OF MOTION CAPTURE
October 27th, 2009
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THE FUTURE OF MOTION CAPTURE Heath Firestone In this article, I’m getting right at the meat of what technologies are, getting us closer to that goal, and what this really means for the future of not only motion capture filmmaking, which Steve Perlman of Mova (www.mova.com), refers to as volumetric cinematography, but also the impact [...]
MOTION CAPTURE
October 27th, 2009
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MOTION CAPTURE Heath Firestone Motion capture, or mocap as it is often referred to, is one of the great new frontiers in the world of movie making, and although it has had its resistance in the film community, it is becoming a crucial tool in complex digital effects. And, as it develops, it has become [...]
Watchmen //Digital Acting of Dr. Manhattan // Making of –Video
October 19th, 2009
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How Benjamin Button got his face //Making of –Video
October 19th, 2009
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Pirates of the Caribbean //Digital Acting of Davy Jones //Making of –Video
October 19th, 2009
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Virtual Acting: The Innovations Are Real
October 19th, 2009
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The digital acting in King Kong was a huge leap forward, because it was the first such performance that really brought emotional weight. © 2005 Universal Studios. Several years ago, I got to spend some quality time alone with Ray Harryhausen. It was only about half an hour, but I count it as a career [...]
Looking CG Treasure From Dead Man’s Chest ILM raises the character animation bar with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and Bill Desowitz gets an overview from John Knoll and Hal Hickel.
October 19th, 2009
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When undertaking back-to-back sequels to Disney’s surprise blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Industrial Light & Magic quickly realized that it neWith the help of the Imocap system, Bill Nighy’s creepy Davy Jones is the next great CG performance after Gollum and King Kong. All images © 2006 Disney Enterprises [...]
