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Archive for the ‘Matchmove // Performance Capture’ Category
The filmmakers reveal to THR how they created the motion capture project on two separate continents
November 5th, 2011
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Number of View: 269Steven Spielberg’s collaboration with Peter Jackson on The Adventures of Tintin was the first time in his career he had worked that closely with another filmmaker, he told The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor, features Stephen Galloway during an exclusive interview with the two men in Paris.
Academy Needs An Oscar For Digital Acting
October 1st, 2011
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Number of View: 539 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Oscars, is generally loathe to make changes to their award categories. But they’ve shown more willingness in recent years, adding a category for Animated Feature Film, and expanding the roster of Best Picture nominees from five to 10 (and [...]
Production Begins on The Hobbit!
March 22nd, 2011
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Number of View: 1233 Production has commenced in Wellington, New Zealand, on “The Hobbit,” filmmaker Peter Jackson’s two film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s widely read masterpiece. “The Hobbit” is set in Middle-earth 60 years before Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster [...]
The Lines Are Blurring – Rango (Johnny Depp)
February 2nd, 2011
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Number of View: 3147 By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times When Gore Verbinski was directing his upcoming movie, “Rango,” a spaghetti western-like tale set in a desert town overrun by bandits, he did what he typically does: have his principal actors, led by Johnny Depp and fellow cast members that include Harry Dean Stanton, Abigail [...]
Tron revealed what computer simulation could be!
December 24th, 2010
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Number of View: 5186 It’s been a quarter-century since Disney’sTron took audiences inside the world of a video game and heralded the dawn of CG moviemaking. Yet its influence endures in countless websites and YouTube postings that echo the movie’s signature style. Even Honda Motors has evokedTron in a TV commercial homage to the film’s [...]
The Making Of TRON
December 24th, 2010
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Number of View: 23178 TRON: Legacy, a high-tech adventure set in a digital world that is unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, “TRON: Legacy” stars Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain, Beau Garrett and Michael Sheen and is produced by Sean Bailey, Jeffrey Silver and [...]
Guillermo Del Toro On Making The Hobbit –Interview
October 3rd, 2010
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Number of View: 33822Eighteen months ago, Guillermo del Toro had a 10-year-plan. His life was mapped out, and it had nothing to do with JRR Tolkien’s lovingly rendered cartography of Middle-earth. “I was calmly laying out the next decade of my life when The Hobbit appeared,” he laughs. “I was preparing all these things and [...]
Steven Spielberg on ‘Tintin’: ‘It made me more like a painter than ever before’
July 4th, 2010
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Number of View: 2618 “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 [...]
Do the ‘Avatar’ actors deserve recognition?
February 26th, 2010
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Number of View: 29506 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 [...]
CG In Another World
February 9th, 2010
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Number of View: 6719CG 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, [...]
James Cameron Performance Capture re-invented AVATAR -Interview
February 8th, 2010
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Number of View: 29738Avatar – 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 of motion capture. In the mid-’90s he used the nascent technology to create the massive crowd scenes [...]
Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss
October 27th, 2009
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Number of View: 2541Andy 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, [...]
Tracking hands, Camera & Projection // The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology –Video
October 20th, 2009
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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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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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Number of View: 5620 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 [...]
