Posts Tagged CG
Coldest Winter – Kanye West
Posted by Shareef in CG, music, music video on February 23rd, 2010
Kanye West continues to release singles from his 2008 808s & Heartbreak album with this video for track 11 – Coldest Winter. Reuniting to work together again, Kanye and Nabil elderkin have produced a music video that is fitting for the song’s lyrics and mood. The CG uses a Frank Miller comic style to produce a haunting world of dead trees, fog and snow. The smoke effect of the girl’s face is particularly impressive (00:15).
Chroma Key
Posted by Shareef in CG, movies, technology on January 21st, 2010
A nice compilation showing the use of the chroma key technique in some popular TV and films. Using green or blue screens in the background, actors are shot and then composited into purposely shot footage from on-location by removing the chosen colour. This means production companies can save money by shooting footage in studios rather than closing down famous landmarks like Times Square (03:43) in New York.
The Known Universe
Posted by Shareef in animation, documentary on December 25th, 2009
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
Amazing, but terrifying at the same time.
Panic Attack
What starts off looking like a student’s film project quickly turns into a full on, in-your-face graphics fest, that builds gradually more amazing over the five minutes. What is particularly clever is its ability to tell a story without any dialogue, with what essentially is a series of cut scenes of action.
The choice of shots is what gives a sense of order to the unfolding events – the boy at the start who feels the footsteps for the first time (00:20) – the tourist with her camera filming the invasion as it happens (01:32) – the news reporter standing less than 100m away from the action (01:45).
The guerrilla-style shaky-cam puts the audience right in the thick of the chaos, as if they are experiencing it in real-time. There is no coverage of rescuers, army generals or Government officials, but the arrival of fighter jets who engage with the enemy towards the end suggests that the world is watching and trying to stage a counter-attack.
Avatar Extended Trailer
The new extended trailer has been released for James Cameron’s Avatar, and this time there is more information on the plot and the characters. It seems that the humans are trying to mine a valuable mineral from the land of the indigenous race, and they have genetically engineered creatures that they can control remotely to infiltrate the local population. While doing so, a soldier starts to question his orders as he learns more about the culture of the aliens, and how it is being destroyed.
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