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How Special Effects Have Progressed.
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"Hollywood has finally come to view Imax as a star. Will Wall Street be the next convert?
Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Imax has struggled for more than a decade to be taken seriously in the film and finance capitals. Hollywood was turned off by Imax’s costly and clunky equipment for its large-format movies, not to mention the location of its theaters at science centers and history museums.
Investors have been even more cautious. Imax, buffeted by changes in ownership and regulatory inquiries into its accounting methods, has not turned a quarterly profit in three years. The company posted a $33.5 million loss for 2008, an 18 percent increase over the previous year.
While few people were looking, however, Imax has transformed itself.
The company still has a museum arm — “Hubble 3D” is the next release — but most of its attention these days is on the multiplex. The company now operates 250 commercial theaters around the world, a 40 percent increase over last year. Box office sales from Hollywood offerings increased 90 percent during the first quarter, to $29.9 million.
Paramount Pictures will bring “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” to Imax theaters in June, while Disney has committed to exhibit five of its coming titles with Imax, including an adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” and a live-action “Alice in Wonderland.” Fox has big Imax plans for “Avatar,” a 3-D thriller from the director James Cameron that is to open in December.
“We had to jump up and down to get noticed by the movie studios, but we are now clearly part of the mainstream experience,” said Richard L. Gelfond, Imax’s chief executive. He and his business partner, Bradley J. Wechsler, chairman of Imax, bought the company in 1994 in partnership with the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella, which no longer has a stake.
Imax’s expansion to the multiplex has not come without controversy, though. Some consumers have complained that the company has taken advantage of moviegoers because it has been installing screens in multiplexes that are bigger than the standard variety but much smaller than the ones Imax operates at museums. The museum-size screens are the ones most people associate with the brand.""Hollywood has finally come to view Imax as a star. Will Wall Street be the next... more
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Shorter Trailer For SR7 Loaded with action...
The film budget was under thousand dollars with over 500 VFX shots and took over 4 years to complete with a crew of three...
www.starranger7.comShorter Trailer For SR7 Loaded with action...
The film budget was under thousand... more
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Think warp drives and hyperspace are a given thing of the future? Wrong. This article debunks many of those sci-fi technologies and situations that are frequented by any good sci-fi flick.Think warp drives and hyperspace are a given thing of the future? Wrong. This... more
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In The future the Star Rangers are the formidable peace-keeping force throughout the human populated galaxy. When an old foe seeking revenge all hell breaks loose. The film budget was under thousand dollars with over 500 VFX shots and took over 4 years to complete with a crew of three...In The future the Star Rangers are the formidable peace-keeping force throughout the... more
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If you gave any one of our big tech industries millions of dollars, a team of computer geniuses and cutting edge technology, they would probably waste it on AIDS vaccine research or nanocomputers or something. Hollywood will invest it in CG penis enhancement.
The reason is sometimes hours of makeup and the perfect lighting still aren't enough to make some stars look like stars. Welcome to the world of "vanity visual effects."If you gave any one of our big tech industries millions of dollars, a team of computer... more
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Follow an epic freeze frame fight scene and discover some of the ways it was created with a great online experience to boot.Follow an epic freeze frame fight scene and discover some of the ways it was created... more
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A guy is working on his laptop when it transforms and flies away.
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a man has the time of his life putting on a diaper, playing with toys and discovering a magic puzzle,a man has the time of his life putting on a diaper, playing with toys and discovering... more
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a tired mom, decides that her daughter's crib is more comfortable than her own bed.
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Another great ad from Nike, this time featuring one of Europe's Elite Basketball Teams - MACCABI TEL AVIVAnother great ad from Nike, this time featuring one of Europe's Elite Basketball Teams... more
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The funny out takes on the set of Star Ranger 7... The film was shot entirely on a green Screen with over 500 visual effects shots added in post...
www.starranger7.comThe funny out takes on the set of Star Ranger 7... The film was shot entirely on a... more
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Did the 3-D version of Monsters Versus Aliens make you want to barf, even though you liked the movie? Now Slate's Daniel Engber explains why - and says the problem may never be solved.
Engber writes:
Vision researchers have spent many years studying the discomfort associated with watching stereoscopic movies. Similar problems plague flight simulators, head-mounted virtual-reality displays, and many other applications of 3-D technology . . .
One potential explanation for the discomfort lies with the unnatural eye movements stereoscopy elicits from viewers. Outside of the 3-D movie theater, our eyes move in two distinct ways when we see something move toward us: First, our eyeballs rotate inward towards the nose (the closer the target comes, the more cross-eyed we get); second, we squeeze the lenses in our eyes to change their shape and keep the target in focus (as you would with a camera). Those two eye movements-called "vergence" and "accommodation"-are automatic in everyday life, and they go hand-in-hand.
Something different happens when you're viewing three-dimensional motion projected onto a flat surface. When a helicopter flies off the screen in Monsters vs. Aliens, our eyeballs rotate inward to follow it, as they would in the real world. Reflexively, our eyes want to make a corresponding change in shape, to shift their plane of focus. If that happened, though, we'd be focusing our eyes somewhere in front of the screen, and the movie itself (which is, after all, projected on the screen) would go a little blurry. So we end up making one eye movement but not the other; the illusion forces our eyes to converge without accommodating.
This is just one part of a fascinating article about the ways 3-D affects our vision - and how all the new 3-D technologies won't be able to fix the basic problems that cause nausea, dizziness, and (potentially) damage our ability to focus our eyes.Did the 3-D version of Monsters Versus Aliens make you want to barf, even though you... more
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I saw this short created by The Mill's "Bif" It's called Dix (yes it's french!) The short is just over 7 minutes long and is graphic. It allowed me to jump into the head of a VERY trapped man forced to confront his problems. I don't want to give away too much. See for yourself while you still can!I saw this short created by The Mill's "Bif" It's called Dix (yes it's french!) The... more
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Spike Jonze has had his hands full with studio issues surrounding the film, but nonetheless some images have surfaced with a better look at the titular monsters from the film. Looks awesome, I hope this is released soon.Spike Jonze has had his hands full with studio issues surrounding the film, but... more
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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a film based loosely on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, stars Brad Pitt as a person who is born old and ages backward. The movie has generated rave reviews and earned 13 Oscar nominations — more than any other film this year — including a nod for special effects and another for best actor.
In the case of Benjamin Button, acting and special effects seem to be related: Pitt couldn't have done the film without the movie's breakthrough technology, and the effects wouldn't be the same without Pitt.
To make Benjamin Button, special effects experts needed to put the head of an aged-looking Pitt on a child's body for the first third of the movie. The results look just like Pitt — only it isn't.
"There's 325 shots — 52 minutes of the film — where there is no actual footage of Brad," says Steve Preeg, a character supervisor at Digital Domain, the studio that did all the special effects for the film. "He's not in any of the shots."
What the audience is actually seeing in the first third of the movie is a computer-generated copy of Pitt's head, which the studio aged digitally. If it acts like Pitt on the screen, that's because Pitt was filmed performing all of the scenes from the first third of the movie — and the special effects gurus then mimicked his movements on the digital head.
But even if it's not Pitt's actual head we're seeing, Digital Domain's executive producer of visual effects, Ed Ulbrich, says the performance is still his. Take the scene where the still-old Benjamin visits a faith healer in a church and gets out of his wheelchair and walks. Ulbrich says Pitt made choices as an actor that no animator would have thought of doing.
"He ends up getting this kind of crazy kind of Popeye look on his face, and he's just thrilled," says Ulbrich. "I don't think that it's something that any of us would have thought of had Brad not done that."""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a film based loosely on an F. Scott Fitzgerald... more
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Local New Hampshire (USA) film and video production artists Marc Kimball and Michael Harnois have been in the business for over 20 years each. Tasked to work with commercial and corporate clients on a daily basis, they needed an outlet to vent their creativity. They formed "40 Something Films" and started to produce their own films as a hobby. They have just completed their latest feature "Star Ranger 7: A Force of One". Because of their years of production expertise, this locally produced short was able to pull of a big budget feel for an actual budget of less than $1000. With a production crew of just three people, this venture was four years in the making. All live action was shot entirely on green screen so the film boast an incredible 500 plus composited effect shots. With a runtime of 21 minutes, Kimball, the film's writer, likens it to a"Cliff Notes" version of the Sci-fi Action film.
Also check out our other films: Superman The Super 8 Movie, Dantana Morse for Galactic Senator and The Star Wars Battle of Hoth...Local New Hampshire (USA) film and video production artists Marc Kimball and Michael... more
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Those cunning special FX loving brothers, the Wachowskis, have apparently been offered the chance to direct a new Superman trilogy. (I know, even more Superman films...)
According to frequent Wachowski-worker, James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) said at the Berlin Film Festival, that Warner Bros had approached the Matrix-making brothers about the possibility of them directing the next stage of the Superman franchise, a new trilogy of films.
There's no confirmations as yet, but reports say that they are considering it.
I have three questions....
a) Could the Wachowski bros do a new Superman film well?
b) Do we really need another Superman film?
c) Can anything ever live up to the original Superman?Those cunning special FX loving brothers, the Wachowskis, have apparently been offered... more
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To say i am a fan of Batman would be putting it mildly. Though up until Batman Begins, I was always let down by what Hollywood did with the story of my favorite comic book hero.
With the information presented in this article on how Christopher Nolan decided to create this latest installment of the series, you've got a fan in a frenzy on your hands.
Christian Bale IS Batman. The last installment of the series, Batman begins made me extremely excited about where the look and feel of The Dark Knight was going to go next. I can't think of a better way to honor the recent loss of one of the greatest special effects artists in the industry; Stan Winston, than to make a movie like the way Mr. Nolan has apparently done with The Dark Knight.
I am so excited to see this flick. I don't care for much that comes out of Hollywood these days, but since I am a fan of everyone in this film, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman, Christmas is coming early this year for YMM. ;-)
Check out the linked article, then watch the trailers in HD. I prefer Trailer #2. If you don't feel a bit like a kid again, please check your pulse.
Fanboys welcome
Trailers In HD
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thedarkknight/hd/
Image above created by: PIC AgencyTo say i am a fan of Batman would be putting it mildly. Though up until Batman... more
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