For the most part, the overall look of the film was done optically. The whole "glow" esthetic was acheived by countless hours of classical animation on celluloid. There are still a few integrations of real CGI which do stand out.
from article:
"Parts of the film were done by shooting live action then doing rotoscope and other optical techniques over the top of it"
Being a student in film studies, I would advance this question with a theorical editing point of view:
During the scene with the architect, why does the camera enter one of the screens on the wall, and this, a few times? As if we were actually going up in the "Neo chain" back to his old speech.
Maybe this set is simply there to image every thought going through Neo's mind at the moment, since at the end, when he makes the choice to go through the door, every Neo behind him doing the same thing, as if he had now clearly made up his mind and is conscious of his choice. Rethinking about it, I guess that these TV screens are not the image of the other "Neo layers" because if so, the other Neos would have gone the other way, as we guess he did every other time. But then again, if the directors thought of this set there must be some kind of imagery in it. I'm simply opening up a debate to get other opinions....by the way, did anyone notice that the many screens we see in the architech's room are the same ones we see at the beginning of The Matrix, when Neo if first interrogated by Smith?
Slashdot Mirror
from article: "Parts of the film were done by shooting live action then doing rotoscope and other optical techniques over the top of it"
Being a student in film studies, I would advance this question with a theorical editing point of view:
...by the way, did anyone notice that the many screens we see in the architech's room are the same ones we see at the beginning of The Matrix, when Neo if first interrogated by Smith?
During the scene with the architect, why does the camera enter one of the screens on the wall, and this, a few times? As if we were actually going up in the "Neo chain" back to his old speech.
Maybe this set is simply there to image every thought going through Neo's mind at the moment, since at the end, when he makes the choice to go through the door, every Neo behind him doing the same thing, as if he had now clearly made up his mind and is conscious of his choice. Rethinking about it, I guess that these TV screens are not the image of the other "Neo layers" because if so, the other Neos would have gone the other way, as we guess he did every other time. But then again, if the directors thought of this set there must be some kind of imagery in it. I'm simply opening up a debate to get other opinions.