Siggraph 2012
Welcome to the start of our Siggraph 2012 coverage. We will be blogging from the show starting with this run down of what has caught our eye looking to the week ahead.
"We mo-capped a gymnast," says animation supervisor Spencer Cook, who worked on the first three Spider-Man movies, of experiments with performance capture for the first film in 2002. "But Spider-Man just looked like a gymnast; it didn't look like Spider-Man. We moved away from that since a lot of Spider-Man shots have larger-than-life action."
It’s been over a year since the Visual Effects Society has issued their hopeful VES 2.0 letter to the industry. Many on the board of the VES have stated that there is action being taken by various subcommittees within the VES and that this is a difficult issue that needs a great deal of research and a strategic plan. I contend that the time to be effective is quickly slipping through our fingers. I believe that given the structure of the VES, its charter as well as its management and its board of directors, make addressing the issues that the Visual Effects industry face, an impossibility.
I was thinking today.
Back to making [light] look like [light].
Its best to keep things tidy.
NBC did an investigation on the Art Institute where some students are racking up $145,000 in student loan debt.
Just throwing it out there,
Nuke's Floating license and Mountain Lion.
Nobody ever thinks its going to take that long or its going to be that difficult. Its the "what could go wrong" mentality.
We have a camera and all the set information we could possibly want
Most of the time you start doing look dev stuff early on. Most of this is done in a fashon that doesn't lend itself to being efficient. Its a look not a final shot.
Scott Squires:
Almost all films coming out of Hollywood use visual effects to some extent and even many independent films have visual effects. Keep in mind that visual effects is not just for science fiction and fantasy films. They can be used extensively in period films and even in present day comedies. FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT used visual effects. WAR HORSE used visual effects extensively including some of the field shots, leaping horse, etc. FOREST GUMP showed an actor missing a leg.
I have been saying this for years. I challenge Hollywood to make a movie without us. Prove me wrong. Hollywood doesn't do it because it can't.