Snow White and the Huntsman

[M Most]

In other spots of the movie the red was used and mixed with film at very high quality ... from that link I gave before ... here's some more info:

“Once the original scene lighting is programmed into the dome, we bring in the hero actor,” continues Williams. “The hero actor sits in a stationary chair (with slight head restraint) and recreates the performance that is being played back on a reference monitor. The recreated performance is recorded with four RED EPIC cameras placed strategically around the dome. The final step involves projecting the RED footage back onto a cyberscan of the hero actor’s face that has been 3D tracked back into the original scene.”

That approach has been used for almost 10 years now, using HD cameras at first and higher resolutions as they became available. This is largely based on Paul Debevic's work and as I recall was used as early as 2003 on "Matrix Reloaded."

BTW, any time you hear that projection mapping is the "final step," be aware that this is rarely the case. All of these type of effects are tweaked to death and often fixed by hand, because those "automated" approaches rarely work as seamlessly as many would like to believe - and that very much includes the 3D tracking of replacement objects.

[Paul Ellington]

The epic footage was blurred and distorted to be almost unrecognizable as an image. They could have probably gone with an iPhone without any loss of quality if they didn't want to cover their bases.

..... ok ....

[CK Olsen]

That approach has been used for almost 10 years now, using HD cameras at first and higher resolutions as they became available. This is largely based on Paul Debevic's work and as I recall was used as early as 2003 on "Matrix Reloaded."

BTW, any time you hear that projection mapping is the "final step," be aware that this is rarely the case. All of these type of effects are tweaked to death and often fixed by hand, because those "automated" approaches rarely work as seamlessly as many would like to believe - and that very much includes the 3D tracking of replacement objects.

Yup... Paul Debevec's image based modelling/lighting and HDR work were the basis for many of the effects within the FIRST Matric Movie as well as throughout the trilogy, but were first showcased publicly nearly two years before the first film came out. There's no way "Mirror Man" would exist if not for Paul's research, as shown in such proof of concept films as his 1997 Rendering with Natural Light (http://www.pauldebevec.com/RNL/) and his 1998 Fiat Lux (http://www.pauldebevec.com/FiatLux).

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Yup... Paul Debevec's image based modelling/lighting and HDR work were the basis for many of the effects within the FIRST Matric Movie as well as throughout the trilogy, but were first showcased publicly nearly two years before the first film came out. There's no way "Mirror Man" would exist if not for Paul's research, as shown in such proof of concept films as his 1997 Rendering with Natural Light (http://www.pauldebevec.com/RNL/) and his 1998 Fiat Lux (http://www.pauldebevec.com/FiatLux).

Paul Debevec does really cool stuff. But image based lighting and high dynamic range imaging is not thanks solely to one individual and was the natural extension of existing research. Not to mention what Paul Debevec is doing is way more complex and cool than anything that was probably used in the making of shot above which is straight forward good old fashioned shading, lighting and compositing. ;)

[Robert L. Mickles]

I think 65mm film and EPIC. A perfect match. :-)

Jim

I agree, Jim!

[Shapour Daneshmand]

I think 65mm film and EPIC. A perfect match. :-)

Jim

65mm finally met its match.
I dont think this is necessarily a good news for 65mm.

[Wayne Beck]

I continue to be amazed at the creative genius found in this industry. Really wonderful!

[Willis Chung]

visually amazing, thought it deserved one of those worst movie of the year awards though...

[Tim Whitcomb]

Wow Willis you probably liked Prometheus :p which has my vote for worst of the year I thought this film was visually fantastic and the story was close to the regional fairy tale and Charlize theron was oscar worthy - one or my favorites of the summer so far
Dwarves were all amazing character actors and the FX were blended beautifully an that trebuchet scene on he beach had my heart pumping and the troll? Wow Was that a scene! Worst movie? Really? Every chance it had to go Hollywood it didn't and I applaud them for this

Interesting how people love and hate the same films isn't it ??!!