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Cubism For CG And Movies
Aidtopia writes "Computer Graphics pioneer Andrew Glassner has a cool page on virtual cinema. The Matrix Reloaded introduced us to virtual cinema--re-rendering live action to show it in a way that would be difficult or impossible in real life. Glassner takes this much further by using unusual (and physically impossible) camera distortions, morphing multiple points of view simultaneously in single continuous image. Could this be the next big revolution in film? How long until we see a movie done like this?"
I vote now to construct a counsel of Holy and/or Wise Men who can seal this technology away to prevent Quentin Tarantino from abusing it.
We could then possibly, umm, have Quentin Tarantino sealed away as well...
/* * pope1 */
...less Alyson Hannigan nude scenes? Bite your tongue!
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
the whole thing could have been avoided if only Neo had done another one of his Superman jumps.
Did you not catch the part where he tried, several times, to fly away and kept getting dragged back down?
I've got a convex mirror and a fish-eye lens. Anyone want to fund my startup special effects company?
-- Posting with Karma to burn.
Real simple.
The future of cinema isn't gonna look anything like what this article talks about. It's obvious. Every person i've shown this to has had their chin hit the floor.
Bowie J. Poag
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Did you not catch the part where he tried, several times, to fly away and kept getting dragged back down?
Maybe he should go on a diet, then.Current Karma Status: Roadkill
Andrew Glassner *had* a cool page on virtual cinema. Then it was slashdotted.
You can mod your friends, you can mod your nose, but you can't mod your friend's nose.
You were supposed to be in Hollywood, making sure they didn't screw up my favorite movie.
Not posting the good plot ideas on slashdot 12 months too late.
Nice going bill, you dropped the ball on this one.
Matrix Reloaded bashed, and Xanadu praised all in the same /. thread... This must be where the Earth opens up beneath me and swallows me whole...
A wizard did it.
ooh! I beat you by 1 minute. You took the time to write all that good stuff, and I just blurted it out.. -grin-
AFAIK Timecode was also shot entirely in ONE TAKE. Impressive, kinda like the Honda commercial of lore...
Could someone please explain what it is I'm watching? I don't get it. Is this just a clip from the movie?
Oh no, it's true! The future of cinema is going to look exactly like the past.
When I saw the filename, I feared it would be exactly what it is.
Oh man, it's like I'm 6 years old again, and forced to hear all my mothers favorite music. No wonder I'm a synthpop geek now.
I downloaded that!
I think I hate you.
There's 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back!
I know what your doing, thats a Sciencetologist(sp?) recruitment video!
You can't fool me!
I predict in the next film neo will wake up.. wander to the shower and find Bobby Ewing is still alive and it was all a dream :-)
I loved the animatrix, much much better than MR. MR was too full of the cliches, love scene, car chase and none of the main characters die (well they do but to add the hollywood cherry on the cake they somehow survive).
Bush and Blair ate my sig!
I think what he was trying to say is that if it looks like a bad real-world composite, rather than a good computer generated effect, then that's a big step forwards for CG. Now, obviously reasonable people can differ as to whether it actually looked like a bad real-world composite.
As a brief aside, one thing I found most amusing about Matrix Reloaded were the battlesuits. They moved like they were done in stop motion, like the cargo lifters in Aliens or something! After decades of sci-fi movies using stop motion, we've gotten to the point where we actually expect futuristic mechanical devices to move like that. Anyway, I thought it was funny.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD