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Making A Scene: Avatar (VIDEO)
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Check out this behind the scenes featurette for Avatar that shows the brand new techonologies that James Cameron used to capture the performance and motion of the actors and how they translated that into the 3D characters. It definitely shows how much thought and work that was put into getting as much of the ...3 days ago -
Entertainment Companies Streamline Motion Capture Workflow with Vicon Blade
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Software System Simplifies Capture & Processing of Motion Capture Data for 3D Animation Vicon, an Academy Award®-winning developer of motion capture products, today announced that growing numbers of entertainment companies have adopted its Blade motion caption processing software system in recent months. The ...5 days ago -
An interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian DeVita
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I had the chance to interview OneHandClapping’s Christian DeVita, the lead storyboard artist for Wes Anderson’s stop motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox . Here is the interview, along with several of Christian’s storyboards, sketches, and even some of director Wes Anderson’s thumbnails. ...6 days ago -
A Christmas Carol
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Some people will never, ever agree with me when I say that motion capture has its own advantages. I shall defend that in a bit. I shall give A Christmas Carol a passing score. And not because its Christmas. First, because Jim Carreys acting was excellent. In motion capture films, an actor not only provides the ...1 week ago -
Zemeckis Wants Special Motion Capture Oscar Category
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Director Robert Zemeckis thinks the work he’s done on his three recent motion capture films deserves special recognition when it comes Oscar time. Zemeckis, who won the award for directing and received a Special Achievement in Animated Direction for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” recently said that motion capture ...1 week ago -
Open Forum Friday: Should There Be an Oscar Category for Motion Capture?
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Recently weve been lamenting the fact that director Robert Zemeckis seems to be only interested in doing movies that use his patented "performance capture" technology -- that is, movies like Beowulf , The Polar Express , and A Christmas Carol , where the actors movements and voices are recorded but then everything ...1 week ago -
Making a Scene: Avatar
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Watch the making of a VFX scene for James Cameron ’s much hyped upcoming movie, Avatar . Everything from the subtlest movement of facial expressions to strands of hair, is captured. Tags: Avatar , Behind the scenes , James Cameron , Motion-Capture Related posts No related posts.1 week ago -
Peter Jackson Says Spielbergs Tintin is Done Filming, but...
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Today brings good news and bad news for fans eagerly awaiting The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn , the first film in a proposed trilogy of new, motion-capture animated 3D films co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson (among others) based on the comic book series created by Georges ...1 week ago -
Microsoft Deny Those Natal Rumors
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Last week some rumors broke about the price-point and release date of Microsoft’s motion capturing Xbox 360 addon Project Natal.The rumors suggested that the device would be released in November of next year and hit the shelves with a very reasonable 50 quid price point and 14 launch titles.Well, guess what? Those ...2 weeks ago -
DCS Event to explore tapeless workflow at the motion picture lab
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Attendees will get up-close look at FotoKem’s new specialty division nextLAB Los Angeles, CA—16th November 2009 — The Digital Cinema Society (DCS), an international nonprofit educational cooperative invites the professional production community to a meeting exploring tapeless workflow at the motion picture lab. ...3 weeks ago -
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 65
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We’re back again! In the last podcast we forgot to talk about the Xbox Dashboard update beta that Jones is participating in. Thus, we cranked out this new podcast quickly so we could discuss these changes before the update goes live. We also - once again - discuss how Robert Zemekis needs to ditch the motion ...3 weeks ago -
Digital Design Studio (DDS)
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The Digital Design Studio (DDS) is a postgraduate research and commercial centre of Glasgow School of Art. Its intense learning and research environment exploits the interface between science, technology and the arts to explore imaginative and novel uses of advanced 3D digital visualisation and interaction ...3 weeks ago -
Zemeckis Directing Motion Capture Nutcracker?
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Not content with taking three beloved books and turning them into expensive, glass-eyed renderings, Robert Zemeckis is planning yet another Christmas-themed motion capture movie. The director of The Polar Express , Beowulf , and A Christmas Carol is considering a 3-D animated adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ...3 weeks ago -
Do You Believe in Avatar?
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To begin, I want to admit that this won’t be the most thorough look at Avatar . I’m not going to chronicle Avatar from its 1994 conception. But I am going to try and throw down why it’s such a big effing deal—Or not? I haven’t updated a lot on Avatar over the last couple of years and that’s mostly ...3 weeks ago -
Zemeckis wants to adapt THE NUTCRACKER using 3D motion-capture
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I’m done being surprised when it is announced that Robert Zemeckis will make a 3D motion-capture adaptation of (insert beloved property here). Zemeckis has blazed the trail for this technology with his last three films. He believes it is the future of filmmaking, and I agree to a certain extent — if practical ...3 weeks ago -
All Aboard ‘The Polar Express!’
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I read a review of The Polar Express comparing the look of the film to illustrations in old children’s books, the ones that, for certain generations, bring back warm and much-cherished memories, and while the movie didn’t exactly knock my socks off like I expected it would, this is exactly what it looks like, and ...3 weeks ago -
Robert Zemeckis to Adapt The Nutcracker Next?
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Heres the thing about Bob Zemeckis and all his newfangled motion-capture outings. When put to more mythic use in Beowulf , I was more drawn in by the adventure and less distracted by the characters. However, between The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol , I couldnt help but be re-struck time and time again ...3 weeks ago -
Robert Zemeckis still making movie magic – ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review
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Will Zemeckiss "A Christmas Carol" live up to expectations?3 weeks ago -
A Christmas Carol
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Another Robert Zemeckis performance-capture movie, and that can only mean one thing – another round of reviews complaining that the “actors”‘ eyes all look a bit funny. You know the angle by now (if not, see my earlier post about Beowulf ): Zemeckis, director of Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger ...3 weeks ago -
NewBlueFX Introduces “Video Essentials III” Effects Plugins
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Video, Multimedia and Technology Editors LA JOLLA, CA (November 04, 2009)— NewBlue, Inc. today launched Video Essentials III, the third and latest offering in its best-selling Video Essentials series of video effects and transitions plugins. NewBlue Video Essentials III provides highly-practical video tools ...4 weeks ago
