Thursday, August 27, 2009
Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration
Geeks Are Sexy: "This 5-minute clip, (made as an educational video for use as an introduction to classroom lecture), shows the history 100 years of visual effects as seen in some of the most notable movies of the past century."
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I think what is most important to observe is the evolution of audience expectation and how that plays the demand for visual effects. One of the more interesting films I saw this summer was "Moon" which had extraordinarily simple stop-motion special effects. It was extremely effective because it wasn't striving for ultra-realism but it embraced the clunky aspects of stop-motion animation without detracting from the experience.
Wow, that was so cool!!!! i feel bad because I didn't recognize more of the older movies, but I especially loved the clips of Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I am a HUGE Star Wars fan, and I remembering watching behind-the-scenes stuff about the original trilogy, and apparently some of the models used in filming the big battle scenes were made of popsicle sticks. that's amazing. also, the aging process in Benjamin Button was very well done. it was very believable in the movie.
It is really interesting looking at some of the early effects and see how the basic underlying principles behind the visual effects hasn't changed all that much. For example, a lot of the early effects used stop motion and/or models, and today underneath the computer effects there are still models that are used in the shoots that are augmented by digital effects. Similarly the idea of combining live action and animation continues with computer effects, where the animation is done on a computer instead of by hand.
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