40 Year Old 3D Computer Graphics (1972) from Robby Ingebretsen on Vimeo. Recently, Ed Catmull and Fred Parke’s computer animated version of Catmull’s left hand done at the University of Utah was added to the National Film Registry. (For some reason, Parke is not given any credit in the Registry’s announcement.) (The film embedded above, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Animation technology'
“A Computer Animated Hand” Added to National Film Registry
January 11th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Animation technology, Computer animation, Film history and criticism
Tags: A Computer Animated Hand (1972)·Ed Catmull·Fred Parke·Futureworld·Looker·National Film Registry
Are New Oscar Rules for Mocap a Power Grab?
July 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation technology, Awards, Feature films, Motion capture
I’m writing this from Edinburgh, Scotland, where my wife and I have been enjoying a really wonderful Society for Animation Studies conference. A full report will follow when I get back home, but I can’t help responding to the Motion Picture Academy’s new rules for defining what is animation (see press release here), which states [...]
Tags: Academy Awards·Avatar·Happy Feet·James Cameron·Monster House
Spielberg on Mocap
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Animation technology, Computer animation, Film technology, Filmmakers
In a follow-up to a front page story in the Los Angeles Times entitled “’Avatar’ stirs an animated actors debate in Hollywood,” the paper’s Rachel Abramowitz posted this interview with Steven Spielberg on his use of motion capture in his The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which utilizes the same technology James [...]
Tags: Motion capture·Steven Spielberg·The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa & Bolt
December 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Animation technology, Computer animation, Feature films, Stereoscopic films
I am a little late in reporting my thoughts on Madagascar: Escape to Africa, the new DreamWorks Animation movie directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, and Bolt, the new stereo 3D film directed by Byron Howard and Chris Williams. Madagascar 2, which continues the screwball capers of the original, seems much the better of [...]
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Motion Capture Marches On
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Animation technology
New Scientist reports, “digital motion capture could soon be within reach of low-budget film makers thanks to new software that records movement without using markers.” The system, developed at Stanford University, in California, and the Max-Planck Institute Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany, allows for what they say is a “3D digital clone” of the actor using [...]
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