Word: cgi
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...cars. Slow-motion effects are merged with real-time movement to surreal, stunning image. Harlin’s constantly surprising camera work sometimes places the audience in the driver’s seat, allowing one to experience firsthand the incredible rush of speed and fury in each race. The CGI and computer-enhanced car crashes that occur on the track are exciting at first, though the novelty soon wears off as they are overused, and the consequences of high-speed collisions are completely ignored. Despite spectacular automobile acrobatics that should result in maiming or death, drivers in Driven just walk...
...Neither of us brought up the movie for the rest of the night. Why would we? The Perfect Storm had absolutely nothing going for it-no character development, no suspense (we all knew the real story), no payoff. It would have played better as an IMAX two-hour CGI wave fest. And just as I tuned out in The Patriot to start asking myself important questions about the film's subject matter, I did the same for The Perfect Storm. Did they slaughter real fish for the packing sequences? Did the PETA get upset - or are fish fair game...
...perfect? We'll answer that question in the last paragraph. For now, let's say that it is something of a milestone in filmmaking. Although computer-generated images, or CGI, have been around for a couple of decades, Petersen's film is traveling the highest plane of the state of the art. Using weather reports, scientific formulas and frequent flights of fancy, a team of artists at Industrial Light & Magic, the prolific special-effects house behind Terminator 2 and the Star Wars franchise, has rendered the roiling seas and crashing waves almost entirely on computers (no miniature boats were used...
...film, a young boy named Cale must search for the key to humanity's salvation after the destruction of Earth at the hands of aliens. Fox Animation Studio's latest full-length feature film promises to break new ground in the animation department. Titan, originally conceived as a completely CGI movie, will feature a unique mix of computer-generated images and traditional animation, resulting in visual sequences that are no less than stunning. As for the tone? Don't expect a G-rating. The story of humanity's desperate struggle for survival in a dangerous and hostile galaxy, without...
Breeding New Comedians While there has been much ballyhoo in the past decade over progress in cinematic special effects with computer-generated imagery (CGI), no one has been talking, at least publicly, about the incredible breakthroughs in the relatively nascent field of comedic gene engineering (CGE). Manipulating genes to alter the makeup of a human's looks and personality has been in the realm of possibility for years. But the prospect of doing it for comedic effect is just starting to take shape. Scientists are working to isolate the specific genetic code responsible for what makes us laugh--the "funny...