pretty cool video on movie special effects......

[tboy]

 

[Looney]

Neat and well done.

 

[tboy]

one of the things I just don't get, why would they do all that digitizing etc for a street scene in ulgy betty? Wouldn't it be simpler to just film on the street?

I know computer effects used to take hours and hours of processing and manipulation to get it to look right so unless they've come up with a new system, it would take less time to just go out and shoot it.....

 

[Stoner]

one of the things I just don't get, why would they do all that digitizing etc for a street scene in ulgy betty? Wouldn't it be simpler to just film on the street?

I know computer effects used to take hours and hours of processing and manipulation to get it to look right so unless they've come up with a new system, it would take less time to just go out and shoot it.....

Good point, anyone know why this is the case?.

 

[blackram]

A lot of the scenes I recognized as having seen before. And in a few cases, like in Madmen, I was completely aware that they were using the greenscreen/bluescreen technology, but in other cases, I wasn't aware of it, and it does surprise me at how commonplace it is now. They don't even need to be showing lightsabre fights these days in order to use special effects, it looks like!

 

[Butch]

A lot of the scenes I recognized as having seen before. And in a few cases, like in Madmen, I was completely aware that they were using the greenscreen/bluescreen technology, but in other cases, I wasn't aware of it, and it does surprise me at how commonplace it is now. They don't even need to be showing lightsabre fights these days in order to use special effects, it looks like!

Jesus I never new any of this. Thanks Tboy.

 

[tboy]

A lot of the scenes I recognized as having seen before. And in a few cases, like in Madmen, I was completely aware that they were using the greenscreen/bluescreen technology, but in other cases, I wasn't aware of it, and it does surprise me at how commonplace it is now. They don't even need to be showing lightsabre fights these days in order to use special effects, it looks like!

You'd think it would be so difficult to get the perspective exactly right in order for the scene to look proper. Like that ugly betty scene where she walked into the bus shelter. I mean, to have the green screen set at the exact angle and the exact point of impact.....

I guess getting permits and clearing the street etc is proving too costly......it used to be exponentially more costly to have someone edit frame by frame but I guess with the new digital motion cameras it isn't so bad.......you have to wonder when we'll find nothing is real anymore....pretty soon they'll be able to digitize an actor/actress and just play it out like a video game.

 

[blackram]

You'd think it would be so difficult to get the perspective exactly right in order for the scene to look proper. Like that ugly betty scene where she walked into the bus shelter. I mean, to have the green screen set at the exact angle and the exact point of impact.....

I've seen the technology of the bluescreen explained before, during Star Wars days. It's not like a mirror where you have to angle it just right to get proper reflections. The bluescreen just represents a single shade of colour which a video editor software then toggles on as something that needs to be replaced. So it doesn't matter if the bluescreens were placed at the right angles or not the software would simply replace any instances of that colour with the replacement scene. You can even have people dressed in the same shade of colour and their clothing will get replaced with the background scene too, as if they were invisible.

I guess getting permits and clearing the street etc is proving too costly......it used to be exponentially more costly to have someone edit frame by frame but I guess with the new digital motion cameras it isn't so bad.......you have to wonder when we'll find nothing is real anymore....pretty soon they'll be able to digitize an actor/actress and just play it out like a video game.

Well, that's already happened, Avatar had all digitized actors, even though they looked like their own real-life selves. Notice how Sigourney Weaver looked just like she did when she was in her 30's in this movie? She's at least twice that age now.

And the current movie, Immortals, is all digitized scenes, not a single real place in there. That was similar to the movie "300" too.