Designing the Computer UIs In Movies

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 24, 2010 @07:41AM from the film-over dept.

xandroid points out an NPR interview with Mark Coleran, who "...designs the fancy-but-fake graphics that flash across computers in the movies. He has worked on a laundry list of blockbusters: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, Mission Impossible III, and many more. He says a lot of the inspiration for computer screens comes from video games." The main point of these fake movie UIs is different than that of real UIs: to tell a story very quickly, not to reveal and enable function.

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Re:so hes the guy to blame by negRo_slim · 2010-01-24 07:56 · Score: 4, Informative

Last I heard (back when TechTV was still going) the majority of the UIs are done with Stardock.

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Re:Clever girl by this+great+guy · 2010-01-24 09:52 · Score: 4, Informative

Life isn't a soap opera. Life isn't a love story. Life isn't about looking like Brad Pitt. Life isn't an action movie. You aren't Vin Diesel.

Hahaha... Yes I am.

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