Number of View: 1032“We’re shooting two films back-to-back, so I’m writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a free-film story arc – not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc. “We’re doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on. We’re creating a [...]
Archive for the ‘Motion Capture’ Category
Weta Digital Reverse Engineers the Human Face
November 4th, 2010
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Number of View: 6757Tintin to get Weta treatment Steven Spielberg has wrapped up shooting the first Tintin movie in Hollywood and will now pass it to Peter Jackson to complete the visual effects. Spielberg last week completed 32 days of shooting the actors, including Daniel Craig as pirate Red Rackham, using special performance capture technology, [...]
New Oscar Rules Deem Motion Capture “Not an Animation Technique”
July 13th, 2010
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Number of View: 15498by: 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 [...]
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 [...]
“It’s About Storytelling. It’s About Humans Playing Humans.” -Interview
February 26th, 2010
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Number of View: 5618 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 [...]
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, [...]
Joe Letteri Talks Digital Acting and 3D Environments
November 7th, 2009
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Number of View: 3473 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, [...]
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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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, [...]
Watchmen //Digital Acting of Dr. Manhattan // Making of –Video
October 19th, 2009
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Virtual Acting: The Innovations Are Real
October 19th, 2009
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Number of View: 3739 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 [...]
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 [...]
