Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree.....might see a difference in the one coming up. They have had a chance to tweak the look. And it might just be blue screen, at least it used to be. Back in the days of photo chemical. Most of the plastic look, is attributable to the rendering of computer generated elements, CGI, these are processor intensive. ILM has their own proprietary render which figures out the light in a scene and calculates what the light would do in the real world and then emulates that. The 3D elements, CGI, are rendered out and then composited with the foreground blue/green screen elements into the final output. Compositing is done in a 2D world, which has a tendency to underscore any differences. (Ilm's group are the masters of the digital world, having been working at this since the late 70's - they did the first cgi shot for "Young Sherlock Holmes" - the stained glass knight that comes alive.) The use of cgi has literally changed the world of film. Photo realism is the goal in most scenarios, seldom achieved, but striven for. Jay Ignaszewski -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Feli Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:12 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 35mm film cameras On Apr 23, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Jay wrote: > Now, now we are not talking story line here > > Jay Ignaszewski Hahaha...ok, lets not get started on the story part. But there is something about how they are dealing with their HD footage on that show, which makes it look like plastic. Which is a shame, because I have seen some HD stuff, which looks gorgeous. HD can also be a nightmare when you are shooting greenscreens, which unfortunately most of Star Wars is... feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information