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Motion Capture and 3D: The BBC site celebrates the visual effects of James Cameron’s film
A prodigy of special effects, never like before. The BBC site is hailing Avatar 2: The Run of Water as the pinnacle ever reached in cinemas. “Avatar is a joyful celebration of history and the visual possibilities of cinema. Director James Cameron set out to take film technology where no one had gone before. And he succeeds.” This is thanks to a double technological challenge: motion capture (motion capture underwater filming has never been done before, so it took the team a year and a half to develop a new system) and 3D, which was developed to create “voyeuristic” experiences for audiences.”The goal of 3D is to make the screen plane disappear for the audience and create a window into a world that makes you forget you’re in a movie theater,” said Landau, Cameron’s partner in producing the Avatar franchise, as as well as Titanic.- We don’t want the images to disappear from the screen because when they do it breaks the suspension of disbelief For us, 3D is even more important in a dramatic scene than in an action scene.” One such action sequence in Water Street involves a train robbery combining 3D with high-speed footage shot at 48 frames pr o second to produce a smoother, more realistic image than the standard 24 fps.
“Cameron, his production company Lightstorm Entertainment, and Weta brought audiences back to the world of Pandora with Avatar: The Runaway Water, the first of four sequels planned for the franchise. It’s yet another realistic film with stunning CGI (computer generated imagery) feats that put the industrial complexities of superhero movies to shame. Important advances were then made through the use of a larger number of face cameras to capture actors’ facial expressions and a larger number of polygons for the texture mapping method, which made it possible to bring out even infinitesimally small details of actors’ performances in their digital avatars in Close-ups, both on land and in the water.
December 29, 2022 (change December 29, 2022 | 11:42 am)
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