Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - INCREDIBLE!
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YJ02
Well Known GateFan
I will vicariously share in your excitement and then wait until I can watch it either via HBO or NETFLIX
But thx for 'Lewis and Clark-ing' it
I will vicariously share in your excitement and then wait until I can watch it either via HBO or NETFLIX
But thx for 'Lewis and Clark-ing' it
You still want the spoiler for the next movie setup? I discourage that...you should see it. I dont know if there is a good copy to download, but you can try.
She gets to become the first human to have sex with one of the apes. She leaves her husband for the ape and the movie ends with her being pregnant. But who is the father? The ape or her husband? Watch to see how it turns out!
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Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Don't leave me on a cliffhanger!! Awww, COME ON!!
YJ02
Well Known GateFan
It is amazing. Mostly because you forget about the CGI. All you see and process is "apes". The special effects are just so well integrated that you don't think about them.
I want to see them train actual apes to act--now THAT would be awesome (or have apes wear the green screen gear and be CGI humans)
and then they could unionize
They were so awesome...real apes could never do the stuff in these movies.
Apes as CGI humans, now THAT is something I would like to see! Perhaps they could do that for the Apes movie that happens after humans have become feral?
YJ02
Well Known GateFan
They were so awesome...real apes could never do the stuff in these movies.
After I typed that I thought just how interesting it would look to have "cgi humans" acted by real apes. Lots of applications--zombies, schizo's, movies about pre-neanderthal man, and any thing else that requires that ape like stance--I mean who else could do it better?
It can be done easily.
If they can get the ape to be still long enough to stick the reference dots on him, it could be done. Horses were used for this in John Carter
YJ02
Well Known GateFan
It can be done easily.
So I guess in SW they could use Elephants or some other large animal for banthas?
And, speaking of banthas--how did they create them in the 70's? Was it a costumed elephant? I can't remember (and feel like conversing about it rather then just looking it up
) how they did it
So I guess in SW they could use Elephants or some other large animal for banthas?
And, speaking of banthas--how did they create them in the 70's? Was it a costumed elephant? I can't remember (and feel like conversing about it rather then just looking it up
Yes. It was a costumed elephant. Motion capture uses reference dots attached to the moving character, which are then mapped to corresponding points on the CGI model.
http://io9.com/5654412/photos-of-an-elephant-dressing-up-as-the-bantha-from-star-wars/
Reference dots on Andy Serkis' face for PotA. The intense facial motion capture uses a lot more dots.
http://www.humandynamo.co.nz/webapps/i/74485/261889/556336
YJ02
Well Known GateFan
So I am assuming then, that one does not need to use a similarly sized creature to portray any other creature/person in CGI?
That is-to portray a bantha-a dog or person could be used and through the cgi process, made to look the desired size? If so, I am still guessing that a four legged real creature makes for the best capture to portray a cgi 4 legged creature (unless that 4 legged creature is portrayed as walking on hind legs-like the raccoon?)
The size is not a factor. The points on the original moving subject can be any size, since the motion is captured by the reference dots. You can map the dots onto the CGI character no matter what size it is. You can even map them to inanimate object CGI models like chairs and trees. You can even mix up the dots and map them in reverse or upside down.