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Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow
professorfalcon writes "Foxnews.com has an interview with the stars of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. They talk about their experience hugging a green screen for the entire film, and how the movie is 'unlike anything most audiences have seen before. It uses no sets, only computer generated imagery.' So most audiences didn't see Star Wars?"
It used no actors, only computer generated whiny melodrama
If the special effects make you woozy, take some Milk of Magnesia.
The TV weather guy is always standing in front a of green screen. It must be really distracting, because the forecasts rarely verify.
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I heard that same thing about Battlefield Earth before I saw it.
Hibbert: No.
Lisa: No.
Marge: No.
Wiggum: No.
Bart: No.
Patty: No.
Wiggum: No.
Ned: No.
Selma: No.
Frink: No.
Lovejoy: No.
Guy hyping Sky Captain: Yes. I mean... um, I mean, no. No, heh.
Wouldn't a blue screen make it harder for the actors to show any emotion beyond sheer anger?
They are Windows users, aren't they?
... the CGI future-retro backgrounds are completely replaced, re-locating the entire plotline to the fictional town of Springfield.
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One could use such blue-screen masking to put the actresses into porn scenes and they would have no idea. Imagine Mr. Goatse posing as a director making a remake of "Journey to the Black Hole". Someone could also hack into the studio's computers, steal the blue-screen tracks, and put their own stuff in the background.
Table-ized A.I.
If the special effects make you woozy, take some Milk of Magnesia.
I spat Milk of Magnesia out of my nose when I read this! It's from the film, FYI.
I would bet that a lot of the digital effects used in this film were rendered and perhaps even designed with Linux. If they were done with Windows they would have used a blue screen.
Well, whatever color the screen is can't be used in the scene and blue is quite common for clothing, whereas green is much less common, especially the very bright green used for green screens.
There are tons of stories about people with conflicting wardrobes and green screens. My favorite is of a weather lady with heavy blue eyeshadow -- when she blinked you could see rought through her eyes.
Although the technology began with blue screens, green screens are far more prevalent today.
I guess Hollywood is finally ditching their Windows 98 installations and replacing them with old school monochrome monitors.
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Excellent 3d graphics, poor 2d acting.
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Umm.. You want a better actress than Paltrow.. You mean 1999s Best Actress Academy Award winner, that Gwyneth Paltrow?
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Many of the scenes in Star Wars were filmed in Tunisia.
Sure, but how do we know Tunisia isn't computer-generated?
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The whole thing would be simpler if you could just buy paint that has a zero alpha component.
Although ... the Tomb Raider chick did a great job ... they should have given her a larger part.
I agree -- Angelina Jolie is damn hot but she looks better when she's wearing form-hugging outfits that give her the illusion of having "bigger parts"!
To the average slashdotter, the only thing that really counts as innovation is making a half-assed, incomplete copy of some proprietary technology, putting it on sourceforge under the GPL, and watching as nobody ever uses it.
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I think Halle Berry (2002 Best Actress Academy Award) could've done it better. Just look how well she did in Catwoman.
Why is the media branch of the White House doing movie interviews now?
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