RED = New Era in VFX

[Stephen Williams]

Well Matthew, and it seems with (D)SLR cameras too:

Hi Emanuel,

I think this was the first time Dayton Taylor had used DSLR's. He had shot tests with a smaller no of cameras.

Stephen

[Casey Green]

We did a hilariously low-tech version of Bullet Time on the upcoming release "Balls of Fury", where the actors playing ping-pong (to the death, of course!) froze, I wrapped around them with the Steadicam, and then they unfroze again. The CGI ball spinning in place was the crowning touch. Viewable here, I think about halfway through the trailer.

This was shot on the Panavision Genesis, by the way.

Matrix Ping Pong?!?!? Hmmm, I wonder where these movie ideas come from?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI

Hah!

[Billy Summers]

At one point in time Burton attempted to patent the snowboard.

[simonfilm]

Have you ever seen a group of men with mallets driving in a stake for a circus big top assembling?

They dispose in circle around the stake and strike it in cascade.

Has this method less right to be patented?

[Darren Orange]

VFX will have to be flawless....that is if you want it to look real and not like a cartoon....Im working on a few things that are heavy with effects. Im talking CG with Maya and such. Keep in mind two kinds of VFX....CG and Practical. A movie like Jurassic Park is a perfect example of a film that uses both very well.

[tj williams]

Charles, with you on Steadi who needs patents.

Is there prior art or what on the "concentric manual hammering methodology of tent peg to ground insertion" (r) Patent pending baby I'm off to the races, every circus will pay.... I'll be in Bermuda...