Say no to CGI
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- mrswilson
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Say no to computer generated imagery.
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Really short experiments exploring alternitives to CGI. Using bits and bobs around the studio to make visuals to music. Needs developing... but let me know your thoughts.Thanks,
Jason
- fadein110
aceness. love it. tomato-esque
- BaskerviIle0
How did you do the type?
How did you edit the video?Surely those things were computer generated?
- mrswilson0
You got me. Rename to 'really trying hard to say no to CGI' :)
- benfal990
inspiring!
thanks for sharing!
- attentionspan0
great, would love to see your take on transformers and avatar
- BaskerviIle0
I really like it. I'm hoping that there might start to be a bit of a backlash against sloppy cgi.
While there was great cgi involved, Jurassic park still really holds up in terms of effect because they did so much in an analogue way. They evening did early stop motion tests. They also hand painting the computer renders to make them more realistic:star wars effects (the original ones) still hold up too because they were models. I'd love to see a new movie use more traditional craft for effects
- argghh, I can't type today. You wouldn't know English was my first languageBaskerviIle
- 23kon0
I've been having a eBay clearout recently and stumbled across a SLR Magic 35mm lens that i'd got for my Sony Nex5n.
It's an amazing little lens, especially with video - god knows why i've never really used it.Been fannying about with video on the camera over the past few nights and have decided to get out and shoot some stuff.
Your video has been an inspiration.Thanks.
- Horp0
This is clearly computer realised, if not entirely generated in-box. But I like the aesthetic. The trick would be to create a narrative presentation that employs these aesthetics in order to show a more visually stimulating cinematic experience that competes with and exposes CGI as a soul-less solution to the problem of story-telling.
It would be amazing if a whole movie, and a whole immersive reality therefore, were created using these techniques. It would, almost by definition be a tech-noir movie though I suspect.
As it is, its just a sequence of abstract arty lo-fi techniques, and as such, it isn't competing with CGI at all.
Check out the work of Oskar Fishinger if you don't know his stuff. He was doing optical mixing in camera back in the 30's and 40's and some of his stuff, if not all of it, still looks mind-blowing today.
- mrswilson0
This is a kind of sketch book really. The idea of making a tech-noir movie is something to aim for definatly - writing a script and actually filming people unnerves me a little...
- showpony0
love the studies; very interesting. related, all the space scenes in "the fountain" were just videos of tinted yeast.
- pang0
The last part reminds me of this Chris Cunningham piece:
- mrswilson0
I made my video in 2007. Chris Cunningham! Thats way better than my shocker.
I really like that moment when something feels underground, untouched or undiscovered, when someone says, 'you're not supposed to be watching this' Anyone seen Irreversible?
to contradict myself:
I'm glad Gaspar Noé said yes to CGI in this movie... very clever delicate stuff.
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- mantrakid0
Mad inspiring; great job man.
- albums0
qbn's visual effect hipsters are showing themselves
Without CGI, there's no way that panned movie Battleship would have looked so good.
Decry the story all you want but that movie looked fucking great.
Looking toward the future, being modern; it's all stopping dead in it's tracks here for the technology of yesteryear.
Makes sense ://, though you probably update your hardware and software at least bi-yearly.
- lodef0
i am of the opinion that there is still a shit load of ground left to be covered in the non-CGI/VFX world that has been effectively abandoned in favour of pure digital rendering.
- lodef0
http://www.nfb.ca/film/creative_…
'A cinematic genius who made films without cameras and music without instruments, McLaren produced 60 films in a stunning range of styles and techniques...'
people like Norman McLaren and all sorts of experimental and mainstream SFX artists from the 60s and 70s. there's an entire thread on oldschool fx around somewhere.
I watched Mad Max the other night and realized there will never be a movie made in quite the same way. There are tonnes of car stunts, explosions and flying shots made for real. a producer would freak out making it these days.
- nb0
Fantastic!
- nthkl0
:)