CGI in Film
‘The world witnessed the CG Character (Casper), More realistic CG Rendered animals (Jumanji) and the first full feature-length computer animated movie (Toy Story)’
This quote shows how much computer-generated images have changed and how it started from starting with one character to a herd of animals to a full length movie, This is evident that Computer generated images have evolved from when it first started with Casper.
‘Between 1996-1998 special effects films started to create entire cities, armies of creatures and destructive disasters in films like Dragon heart, Independence day, Twister , Mars Attacks , The Fifth element, Starship Troopers, Titanic and Godzilla.’
Now that CGI is more commonly used in films it is easier to create what they want by creating what they want to like cities. The director might want to make the city look the ways he visualizes and the easiest option to do this is create computer-generated images of the city to display his vision.
This article indicates that CGI has been used to solve problems, When Robert Downey Jr was absent on set due to an injury they created a fake Robert Downey Jr to star the roll of Iron man.
"We were able to reconstruct RDJ as Tony Stark on set, with the help of [a] body double and the facial captures we'd collected afterwards,"
This Can show how much CGI has been useful and can help solve problems that they may stroll upon during the filming. If you looked at the fake Robert Downey junior you would not be able to tell because it has been made to look exactly like him.
Films like Avatar wouldn’t have happened without CGI due to it all being created using Computer Generated images, Without the use of CGI Avatar wouldn’t have been as big as it is, It is known for the excellent imagery used and this is why it is most known for. Avatar was filmed in a big room and this has created Pandora with computer-generated images. James Cameron’s The Abyss was the start of using the CGI to create water like creature and now he has created Avatar were everything in the film was made with CGI and this is one of the main reasons why it earned so much in the Box office.
Using CGI has been known to be cheaper and more useful. ‘Let's say that you needed a shot of an airliner in flight. You would need to get permission from the airline to follow and film one of their planes. Or maybe you'd rent it and the pilot from the airline for the day. Then you need to rent a chase plane, send people up, get the planes over the right type of land, hope you get just the right shot, etc. With CGI, you can position everything exactly where you need without leaving the studio’
This states how it has become easier and cheaper to use CGI in our films it also helps project the Directors vision. Avatar wouldn’t have happened without the CGI because the whole film was done in a world that doesn’t exist and the Avatar people do not exist they had to create them some how and they used CGI to do create this work of art. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2efxouZZB0
In this behind the scenes footage of avatar it shows how they created the characters and how they created the surrounding and by looking at Pandora you could imagine it to look real.
This Forum indicates how people believe that in the future that soon they will no longer need celebrities to act in the films but instead they will use CGI to create a fake celebrity to take there part, Avatar backs this up because the whole film was done in a single room with one camera this shows hoe much CGI is advancing and it can only get better in the future.
In this video it shows how they created the whole of New York City using CGI this shows how far CGI has advanced from when it was first created with West world. Thye fid that creating the new york city with CGI easier to make and destroy because it wouldn’t be as expensive and it would have been easier to create it all using CGI rather then creating the explosives and the collapsing buildings.
During the film The Looper Joseph Gordon-Levitt face was changed during the film to make him look more like Bruce Willis in the film this was used to make Josephs Character a younger version of Bruce Willis this was such a simple way to create a difference in a camera then just adding make up to him. The use of CGI in this film is great and it really does make us change the way we view films because it does make you think how have they added these key features using CGI.
During the Dark knight Rises When Bane de wings the CIA plane from the sky nobody would have thought of doing this with a real plane because they knew it would be to risky as well as expensive CGI helps the director put there vision of the film in the cinema because if CGI wasn’t invented the films would look cheesy and fake but now they can do what they want in films using CGI.
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