Stephane Beaudin <sbea...@simbolique.ca> wrote:
: I wish to reassure the fans (and employees) of ILM who have been numerous to
: respond to my post on the running comparison with Digital Domain. I do not
: impune the technical quality of ILM's work, the only thing they have had
: difficulty doing flawlessly is compositing, and they have obviously solved
: that in recent months, on this point I must further add that compositing
: flaws did not usually show on screen, but where obvious on video only. My
: point all along has benn that ILM's recent work has been well above their
: past standard, not only technically (that's always getting better for
: everyone) but artistically. Their shots have been truly overwhelming, in a
: way that had seemed to be Digital Domain's exclusive ground for a while. Any
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Well some people (but in this case I speak of myself), never felt ILM left
anytime. They were always "there".
: for animating 3D characters. What matters is the effect it had on you, and
: of course how much money the studio made off it (sure it's important, it's
: what we're here for!). I just want to reiterate my happiness at seeing that
: ILM has re-joined the ranks of companys that make effects that blow ME away.
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Stéphane Beaudin wrote:
> I wish to reassure the fans (and employees) of ILM who have been numerous to
> respond to my post on the running comparison with Digital Domain. I do not
> impune the technical quality of ILM's work, the only thing they have had
> difficulty doing flawlessly is compositing...
Huh? Didn't they originate the use of digital compositing?
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From what I've seen, it's a black level problem. A great example is
Jumanji. Of course, things are better now (Lost World, for example was
amazing).
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I wanna know if there is sometimes a problem with film recorders
really being faithfull in outputting to film with all the color
saturation and contrast of the original plate. I see this on TV, but a
lot of times in the theatre too. Last year, saw Batman and Robin, yes a
terrible mistake, but watching that movie, every time there was a stunt
with wire removal, the picture got kinda squashed contrast wise and the
color saturation went down a bit. One scene with a freeze ray freezing
a city looked like it was filmed off a television set. And earlier this
year, I saw a movie Lost in Space, and a lot of shots, especialy with
this little yellow CGI character, the picture got all degraded each
time. I seen this kind of degradation lately in the Mask of Zorro movie
too.
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Erik W. <erw...@lsol.net> wrote:
: Does ILM have a web site? If so, What is it?
Hmmmm. I think the first company to composite a film sequence was
Computer Film Co.
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This is correct. It was 1987, as I recall. Their first system was
insanely archaic: no hard disk! There were two scanners, which would
each scan a frame into RAM. The comp would be set up and executed, and
the frame, rather than being written to disk, would be sent right to the
film recorder! Wow!
But ILM followed CFC's achievement by only a week. Seeing as they both
developed their systems from scratch (Well, ok ILM had some help from
Kodak, I think) it could fairly be called a tie. However, CFC made
digital compositing commercially viable long before ILM was able to.
They were in full swing as a digital film business by 1989.
ILM was a much more accomplished company, however, with a far greater
number of people adept in the myriad other aspects of filmmaking; as
such they are the ones remembered for pioneering digital effects and
film effects in general. CFC being in London probably didn't help
either...
That first CFC comp was a morph of a man to a dolphin, in a movie called
Fruit Machine.
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