Word: cg
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...made: a scale replica of the Titanic. By contrast, Avatar's performance-capture soundstage, which is called the volume, looked like a Saturday Night Live skit about postmodern theater. Instead of sets, gray-painted polygons and the occasional tree were moved around to create topography. For the computer-generated (CG) scenes, which make up about 60% of the finished film, the cast wore clingy Lycra bodysuits covered in markers that were recognized by the 102 cameras on the warehouse ceiling. They donned skullcaps rigged with tiny cameras that imaged their faces. Thanks to software created for the film, the actors...
...laid plastic sheets on the floor, forcing the cast to walk gingerly. When Zoe Saldana, who plays Jake's Na'vi love interest Neytiri, was "riding" a flying creature, she clung to a giant gray hobbyhorse rocked on a gimbal by grips. For scenes that combined live action with CG, Cameron used a new tool called a Simulcam, which allowed him to see actors playing in exotic CG surroundings in real time. Cameron's goal was to shoot as if he were filming a documentary on another planet. It was the kind of filmmaking environment that required both imagination...
...trailer went online on Aug. 21, demand was instantaneous, quickly making it the most downloaded trailer at Apple.com The Avatar footage triggered a record 4 million streams in its first day. But the reaction wasn't all glowing. Some commenters likened the Na'vi to George Lucas' reviled CG character Jar Jar Binks, others to the '80s TV cartoon Thundercats. Those who saw the footage in theaters (it screened in select IMAX locations) were considerably more impressed, but the initial hype and interest that had surrounded the project were giving way to a backlash. This was a place Cameron...
...into a waterfall. Small Björk and the clay being drop down, flying through a tunnel of water into the hands of the river god. This whole video lasts almost eight minutes. I really wish I could make fun of this attempt at highbrow art, which combines both CG and puppeteering into a hodgepodge of crazy. But how can one find humor in something so truly bizarre, something so lacking in any kind of anchor to reality? So in the end, I think the only word that truly describes this deliciously awful music video...
...want to be with Caroline [R. Giuliani ’11] because she is just… I can’t even handle it, she drives me crazy.Caroline R. Giuliani ’11RR: So who do you play in “Castaways”?CG: I play Cassandra, a Harvard student who has decided to go on a nature cruise for spring break, to get away from the stress of school and everything. They get stranded on this island and she’s sort of the only one who is really thinking things through. Brandon?...