Juan Carlos Garcia AVID 2A 6/12/2016 Research Question: What makes Industrial light and Magic a master in the special effects industry? Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) has been known in the past for its contributions to the special effects industry by doing the special effects for movies such as Star Wars and Titanic. Since it’s creation, ILM has been an innovator in the special effects field by creating practical and computer VFX. In an article by Alex French, he wrote “Along the way ILM has put tentacles into pirate beards, turned a man into mercury, and dominated box office charts with computer-generated dinosaurs and superheroes.” With the help of ILM, movies series such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Jurassic Park, have been box office hits because of their never before seen special effects. For the movie “Transformers: Age of Extinction”, Industrial Light and Magic used “hardware accelerated GPU-based volume sim and renderer … the team moved …show more content…
The headquarters for ILM is in San Francisco and employs about 3,500 people. This is a large amount of employees, especially for a special effects company. The current movies that ILM are working on is Warcraft. In an article by Alex Billington, he wrote “ILM says their facial capture technology for this movie is groundbreaking, and pushes the boundaries of filmmaking beyond what we've seen with Avatar and the recent Planet of the Apes movies”(Billington). The facial capture technology allows ILM to create the characters in the movie. In a press release by Warcraft, it stated “Some of the biggest motion-captured sets that have ever been created and an innovative and visually appealing artistic achievement — something Duncan refers to as the "biggest kind of filmmaking you can do”(mashable.com). The large scale motion capture sets are just one example of how Industrial Light and Magic is pushing the boundary of
The spectacular qualities within the contemporary films that use VFX became progressively important to Hollywood. The popularity of the ever growing special effects has been increased by a growing demand for products in different multimedia forms such as computer games, theme-park rides and many other secondary outlets that frequently generated more profits then the films they were based on.
CGI is used in films, television programs and commercials, and in printed media such as new...
Besides the great components that has formed, what I unlike many of the critics believe to be one of the greatness movie of all time, an aspect of the film that does not seem to disappoint is the special effects, more specifically, the CGI’s. BBC News states that “it is this hyper-real movie magic that has made the Oscar-winner one of the most sought after visual effects supervisors in Hollywood.” Oscar winning Scott Farrar was the visual effects supervisor in the entire preceding Transformers trilogy. The movie offered “a tour de force of special effects, even if the critics were less kind about the movie's storyline”. While some may say that the visual effects used in the film were too much and sometimes unnecessary, there is no doubt that Farrar achieved great lengths and challenged future innovators of the visual and special effects industry.
The Matrix is a film that uses the five elements of mise-en-scene in order to deliver meaning to the audience and is constantly being seen throughout the entire film. Mise-en-scene is used by filmmakers and directors in order to emphasize what they want the audience to look at as important. The elements of Mise-en-scene are setting, costume and makeup, character and actor, lighting and color, and composition.
As time and people are continually changing, so is knowledge and information; and in the film industry there are inevitable technological advances necessary to keep the attraction of the public. It is through graphic effects, sounds and visual recordings that all individuals see how we have evolved to present day digital technology; and it is because of the efforts and ideas of the first and latest great innovators of the twentieth century that we have advanced in film and computers.
Looking at today’s movies, we are met with vivid colors, fantastical landscapes, creatures from distant planets, and augmented reality. Amazing, but all computer generated. So what ever happened to good old special effects makeup? Physical application and design have been the “go to” methods for a long time in the film industry. SFX makeup sets the foundation for today’s CGI.
Just like most art forms it takes practice to become really good at animating. Computers have helped to make animation a quicker and simpler process then it once was. Now computers have been used in almost every animated film that has come out in the last ten years. Because of this animation quality has improve dramatically to the point that animated characters are serving as major characters in many of the top movies today. This includes characters such as Ja-Ja Banks in Starwars, The many dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park movies, and Gollum in the Lord of the Ring movies.
They again wowed us with amazing computer generated characters as well as back drop’s which showed the amount of work and time put into this movie. Compared to the 2012 release of the first movie they have stepped up their game in the graphics department. Along with many of the great scenes was a brilliant selection of music which aided in creating an environment that really played a role in setting the mood and tone of the movie. They were given a larger canvas to fill this movie as they generated more of the outside world. They had a fun time designing Johnny’s northern California stomping grounds with more colorful computer generated back drops Compared to the dark old timey hotel that has been Dracula’s home for over a hundred years.
One of the films most important and groundbreaking technology is the use of motion capture. Motion capture technology has the ability to capture more realistic eye movements. Special reflective markers are placed onto the actors, which are wearing tight suits. Cameras recognize these markers and therefore the movements of the actor can be recorded. The captured data that was recorded is transformed into a digital model and transferred to a 3D software which would show the characters moving exactly how the actors did when they were performing for the scene. The data is cleaned up and animators will bring the character to life, with movement, texture, skeleton and muscles. An advantage that is offered in motion capture is it is more rapid and producing the animate...
Computer Generated Images, or CGI, is a form of Computer Graphics design, and animations, that make a image look 3D. These images are shown all throughout the media world, industry, and business, such as print media, tv, movies, pictures, commercials, etc. CGI’s have improved rapidly on software that helps our world improve on computer generated imaging. CGI software’s is used to make graphical design for purposes like movies in the theater. CGI companies and software’s, has made the technology age, and its computer has increase in speeds, and has allowed computer graphics programmers, and other companies, to make better quality films, games, and electronic digital photos on their CPU’s, or laptops. Because of the new advancement in software technology in CGI, and graphics designing, it has brought new internet religious cultures, its own new experiences, such as celebrities, and newer technological vocabulary. Technology advancement has increased so much that CGI’s has lead to the new beginning or era of virtual cinema photography.
With a big history in the film making industry, Universal Studios is the largest film studio in the world, with 9000 employee’s. The company produced ‘ET: The Extra Terrestrial’ and ‘Jurassic Park’ which are two of the highest grossing movies in all of time. The company is quite regular in introducing new films into the consumer market, outputting between 15 – 18 per year.
Computer technology invades the film industry. The existence of computers have aided in the production of genres of film ranging from action movie special effects, to cartoon animation and claymation. Computer Generated Imagery, better known as CGI, assists filmmakers in many ways. An image can be made two-dimensional from a three-dimensional scene, camera angles can be altered to make a character seem larger and thus more important than its surrounding bodies, and colors can be brightened or neutralized, among other things (Parsons, Oja 1). Without the aid of computers, movies would not have the ability to be what they are today.
...y conceivable scene can be computer generated if resources are committed to achieve the desired goal. Technology is set to continue to revolutionise the film industry for many years to come (Huang 2004).
Computer Generated Imagery is the special effects used in motion pictures to create a visual depiction of an illusion that can not be easily created in real life. Directors of major motion pictures have been using these technologies since the early days of the personal computer. Early on, when and special effects were in their beginning stages, it was difficult to make efficient and effective effects that are well accepted by the movie critics and the general public. An evolution of special effects and the introduction of computerized animation brought the standards for movie effects to a higher level. The development of new methods of Computer Generated Imagery for less money and more effective than in the past has allowed even fairly low budget movies to incorporate such technology. Today, movies use CGI to create special effects to replace thousands of extras, stunt people, and puppet like characters, as witnessed in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The evolution of special effects and Computer Generated Imagery technologies has taken the film industry to a whole new level.
It was Sunday morning, and I just arrived home from the Flea market. The day was uneventful; all I got from my morning expedition was a small lamp. As I laid down my find on the table, I noticed some smudges on the lamp, which I rubbed off with a damp towel. Long, before I knew it, a swirl of white cloud billowed from the lamp that slowly formed into a genie. The genie looked exactly the one from the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp. As expected, the genie spoke, "Thank you for letting me out and for that I 'll grant you three wishes." I looked around the room and saw the words 'Ancient Greece ' on one of the brochures on my desk. Caught by surprise, I asked, "How about a trip to Ancient Greece?”