Screen Magic

Sometimes watching a movie can feel like stepping into another world, where the impossible is possible and the unreal looks only too real. With the advent of computer animation, movie special effects are becoming more and more believable, and more and more spectacular; let's take a look at just how the professional animation teams behind the magic create the visuals that bedazzle us all.
Movie Magic: Creating Unreality from Reality

“How’d they do that?” Take a peek at how computer animators make those digital models move in such a realistic fashion

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The Art of Digital Compositing: Blue-Screening

Sometimes we see effects in television and movies that couldn’t possibly be real. But if these scenes aren’t being shot against real-life backdrops….how are these actors being placed in these fantastic environments, performing these strange and unreal acts?

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Filming in the Digital World: Virtual “Cameras”

Ever wondered how those dazzling animated effects got from the computer to the movie screen? Even when working in three-dimensional computer animation, you still need a camera to film your animation.

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From 2D to 3D: Using Textures to Create Raised Surfaces

Three-dimensional models can possess amazing levels of detail; not only in sculpted shapes, but also in texture. In truth, what you’re looking at isn’t clever modeling, but an illusion of texturing.

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Robots: A Fine Example to Animators….of What Not to Do.

While the animation in Robots is visually stunning and a wonderful example of what attention to detail can do, I think that this film can teach animators a much more important lesson: what not to do when creating an animated film/story.

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