Matrix FX question?
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- timA
Anybody seen this article?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/850165…
The whole thing about virtual cinemtography near the end - they're big invention. Aren't they just talking about motion capture?
I'm confused.
- quamb0
instead of using 'digital' stand ins for complex shots (ie, what they've done for spiderman, attack of the clones etc etc) they have in fact shot the actor on film with cameras all around him (including above).
a piece of software then makes up the angles that weren't shot (otherwise youd need thousands of cameras to get every single angle aroound the actor).
so now, you have almost a virtual reality shot of a REAL actor doing this thing.
SO NOW, they can add heaps of Agent Smiths fighting Neo, all of which (I'm not sure how often) are actually the real actor.
There are cheap versions of this software available that can do a similar thing out of 2 photos of say an apple at a different angle. Then you can get a semi-3D effect without the use of any "real" 3D app.
make sense? i sure cant understand myself...
- ilmarine0
nope. to me it seems that they capture movement from five different angles, create a perfect 3d model (perfect meaning it looks just like life) and then can use it wherever and whenever they want. of course, the movements of this model are limited to those the actor performed but basically you can do bullet time of whatever without millions of cameras, or something. you just take the model (or models), put them into and artificial environment (or maybe even a real environment) and twist and turn and zoom them however you wish.
- quamb0
nup, no 3D models.
thats pretty standard stuff, which ofcourse yeah, there will be heaps of that stuff in teh film... though this vitual cinematography thing they keep going on about is NEW (well for film fx).
- timA0
Thanks for the response so far... I'm still trying to piece it all together in my mind...
- ilmarine0
yep 3d models. if you photograph an object from every side, you can calculate its dimensions and make a model. it is not modelled however but based on real persons' physique. if it wasn't 3d, then why bother?
however, you and me both don't know all the details of this process, so we both speculate, am i right?
- k0na_an0k0
i think a few years ago they cloned the actor for agent smith and used his clones to film the sceen. 99 of them i think. maybe more in case one or two were to pass away during filming.
- Mal0
- TransFatty0
quamb hit the nail on the head.
what they are doing is eventually what Hollyweird hopes to achieve some day.
Full Spectrum Dominance of anygiven scene in any movie.
Terrifying possibilities really.
What we are really talking about is Liquid Cinema, wherby every aspect of the film making process can be tweekeed ... a Ctrl Z on ''Reality'' itself.
- CL0
this aint rock and roll, it's genocide.
- timA0
Thanks for the response... It's been really interesting. Cheers. :)