Viral Video: Spooky Weird New Animation Process
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| Film School Rejects found this 8/22/2008 on weblogs.variety.com [flag] |
I think I'll wait for James Cameron's Avatar.
The Holy Grail for VFX is creating animated human beings who are believable in a live-action context. Many movies like Superman Returns, Spider-Man 2 and Lemony Snicket have done it for split seconds or minutes between live action shots. But the humans are usually silent.
Remember the creepy "performance capture" humans in Polar Express ...
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Officially Cool: Freakishly Realistic Animation [Officially Cool]
Published 8/22/2008 by Brian C. Gibson at Film School Rejects
... Hopkins and Angelina Jolie. This is a video explaining the visual effects company, Image Metrics. Watch, and I will catch you after the video…
So did you catch that? “Emily” is the freakishly realistic animated human. I’m sure you caught it eventually, but I will admit that I couldn’t tell at first.
Sound Off: Do you think that animating humans defeats the whole purpose of animation?
Source: Thompson on Hollywood
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