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FallingIntoStrangers
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That is the cutest widdle thing I have ever seen!!! Squeeeeeee!!! I just wanna reach through the screen and hug and cuddle him.. oh.. I love baby pengiuns...
If they have a stuffed doll version of this I SO want it!!!
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Alatariel
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I watched March of the Penguins today and saw the second trailer for "Happy Feet". Man, computer animation is damn amazing these days. How did you get all those penguins to dance? Looks like a good flick is on the way! 
Emperor penguins...they are quite resilient little fellows aren't they? |
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dolarabee
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Mocap mainly. That's motion capture, you know, like Serkis did for Gollum. Nice slinky spandex suit with loads of sensors stuck to it. They brought in many dancers and rehearsed for ages and then all of these moves were recorded on computer to be given to computer drawn penguins and they're basically animated like that (for the dancing anyway). So that's for about, say, forty odd penguins. And then you use a software like Massive, which creates and extrapolates from a given baseline movements in the same vein for a lot more characters. LotR used that too, for the scenes with the big armies. No way could someone possibly animate, one by one, that many orcs, men or elves or whatnot.
Haven't seen March of the Penguins yet. Only found it in English here and I'd rather see it in its original version. So it was very good?
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Alatariel
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Yeah, I saw the featurette on one of the extended editions that chronicled how they developed the battle scenes and I am familiar with motion capture from the movies. But it really does look amazing, congratulations on a job well done!
As for March of the Penguins, if you enjoy documentaries and/or watch specials on animal planet or national geographic then you should enjoy it. But, even if you don't watch those types of films, it is still entertaining. It's amazing what these penguins have evolved to handle! So, if it come out, I would recommend renting it, just for the penguin chicks in the flick - they are absolutely adorable! |
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dolarabee
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| Alatariel wrote: | | But it really does look amazing, congratulations on a job well done! |
Thanks but I won't take the credit for that. I'm not an animator. I'm not even a CG artist (lighting, texture, compositing, etc) in any shape or form. I'm just one cog in the production chain and it's not on the creative side. I work with the film end of it, that is, the medium, the actual 35mm negative and/or positive. I scan the neg into a computer so the 2D/3D artists can do their magic and then I shoot it back on film when they're done. When it's a big CG/digital production like this one, it's a lot of back and forth requiring of us in the Digital Film Bureau to record out to film what they do on computer just for tests, see how it comes out on a big screen, and then it's back to the drawing board. Been doing this since 2002 now and though we've done quite a bit, there's at least another seven months to go, if not more before the whole cut (all the scenes/shots) are locked in and ready to output to film as a final. I hope I'll be back at work for that, or else I'll find it incredibly frustrating to have started this project and not seeing it to the end. 
Anyway, thanks for answering my question about La marche de l'empereur. I'll definitely try and catch it and if the original French production never becomes available here I'll just have to go with Morgan Freeman's voice over.
In the early days of Happy Feet, some lucky folks at our company were actually sent to Antarctica to shoot loads of footage of penguins, skies, ice formations, landscapes, icebergs, the sea, etc. and also to study the little beasts' movements, behaviour and all that. They're incredible images, most we had to scan in so the artists had them as reference. It was a marvelous time for us, operating the scanners but still, I'm sure, not as marvelous as for the ones who were actually there taking all that stockshot. But I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product. I've only seen scenes, out of order, as they are being tested or finished so it'll be nice when it's all put together.
(sorry, kind of get excited about it... can't help it. btw, Ghetto, if you loved Babe, watch out for Charlotte's Web. It's being done by the same gang and from what we've scanned so far, it'll be brilliant.)
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Alatariel
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| I can imagine it would be amazing to see that landscape. I study geology and have met a few people who have travelled down there for research purposes too. They say the views are breathtaking but the stay can be unbearable because of how desolote it is. Plus, if you go there during the wrong time of the year, the weather can be nasty. But, I don't think they'd trade the experience in a million years. |
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ghettoelleth
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I know what you mean Do and you should be excited. Without your step it wouldn't be happening.
Charlotte's Web is going to be wonderful. That and anything by Frank L. Baum were my favorites when I was about 7 cuz I learned to read really early and that's all I had. I can't wait to see it.
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