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![INTRODUCTION
"It is not just that such images [CGIs] raise the
stakes of what can be represented, but that
they are ... more real than the real ... "
Why did we chose this topic?
• Common interest.
• Relevant to our course.
• Explore various aspects.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/computergeneratedimagesinmovies-130315130313-phpapp02/85/Computer-generated-images-in-movies-2-320.jpg)
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Computer generated images in movies
- 1. COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGES IN MOVIES Stephen Halley - 11060131 Aoife O'Dwyer - 11131888 Mark Eisenberg - 11118482
- 2. INTRODUCTION "It is notjust that such images [CGIs] raise the stakes of what can be represented, but that they are ... more real than the real ... " Why did we chose this topic? • Common interest. • Relevant to our course. • Explore various aspects.
- 3. Our Sections • CGI in Science Fiction • Realistic Effects • Non-Realistic Animation
- 4. CGI IN SCI-FI: FROMSTAR WARS TO THE AVENGERS
- 5. THE EARLY DAYS •CGI & Science fiction go hand in hand. • 3D CGI first used in 'Futureworld' (1976) ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (1977) used 3D wire frame graphics. • 1982 – ‘Tron’ - first movie to have extensive use of solid 3D CGI. Very little processing required.
- 6. RISE IN POPULARITY •Sci-Fi movies become more prominent and successful through the use of CGI. • CGI has helped make certain elements cheaper to create. • Younger audiences in a video game culture. • End of 20th century - New advances in CGI - 'The Matrix' (1999) - Bullet Time. • Increase in big budget, CGI inspired, sci-fi movies.
- 7. • 'The Lord of the Rings' Trilogy (2001-2003) blended live action and CGI seamlessly. • AI used for digital actors - Eg. Gollum 'Avatar' (2009) - first full length movie to use performance capture to create photorealistic characters and environments. • 'Avengers Assemble' (2012) - Used CGI throughout to make unrealistic characters and creatures look exactly like reality.
- 8. Realistic CGI & Animation
- 9. Realistic CGI &Animation • Character - Body Movements • Personality - Facial Expressiveness • Polygon Meshes - Fast rendering, common, lots needed. • Human Face - Bossels and Depressions, shading problems, motion and close-up detail. • Empathy, Agency (impacting an event) • No sudden movement
- 10. Methods Realistic CGI • Photographs • Cross sections - topographic map, contours • Magnetic-field 3D digitizing - faster • Plaster, sculpting, projected grid Making it easier • Reusing old assets • Symmetry • Computer sculpting - Adding, removing, assembling - "Spaceball" • Spheres, Cylinders, Points, Moulding
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- 12. Realistic Animation • Actions follow screenplay and storyboard • Motion capture - expressiveness • Suite of emotions/motions • Not producing a generalization, but working off a blank slate. • Reusing animation assets • Colour, texture eg. blushing • Intermediate emotions can be generated by computers.
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- 14. Cell Animation • Traditional method of animation • Each image is drawn by hand • Main method until computer animation Method: • Artists drew on transparent pages ("cells") • Coloured in by hand • Sections could be moved without redrawing entirety
- 15. CAPS • "Computer Animation Production System" • Developed by The Walt Disney Company and Pixar in the late 1980's • The first computer paint system • Image outlines were scanned onto computers, then painted • Enclosed blocks of images could be painted with a mouse click • Improved colour blending, shading, camera movements • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) was the first film entirely made using CAPS • Images were 2D looking and CAPS stopped being popular in 2004
- 16. 3D CGI Animation • Even outline drawings are drawn on the computer, not by hand • Small components can be modified, not just layers • Improves perspective and makes the image look 3D • Cel shading: "toon shading" used to make computer images appear hand drawn. Gives a more "traditional" feel
- 18. Conclusions • From doing this presentation we have learned that tricks of the trade are used across specialities. • Computer Generated Images in movies are improving at a fast rate. The detail in graphics available now were not even dreamt of years ago. • The things we have learned can help us in the future with projects and in the workplace.