I'm thinking back what films we have watched previously that I've managed to watch (without sleeping) in class.
Terminator 2 : Judgment Day (1991)
Well seriously I didn't know it was a 1991 film until I googled for it. The effects were done by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM, yeah them again) It was one of the films that did the morphing technique well. The part whereby T-1000 transformed into the security guard in the mental hospital was very well-done. The second screencap above is an interesting effect though. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of effect is was since they stated that the CGI ILM did for this film was "manipulate, re-create and 'morph'"
And as I'm studying for test now, I'm looking at Week 17 post and I realized that animation is indeed transforming itself to many forms in the past. Hand-drawn animation being placed into films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit allows audience to believe that such characters are able to communicate and interact with humans. Suspension of disbelief. Oh my god sounds complicated. But to me it's like.. we know that CG characters are fake but they are created that real that we just want to believe that they exist. BUT no matter how real they are, THEY ARE STILL FAKE. Animation helped audiences to visualize things that are just not possible to be seen in the real world. Such as Cannibal Island in Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (oops sounds familiar?) was created in Vue. There's no way we could see such scenes in real life, however through film we could visualize it and believe that such landscape exist in the real world.
Things such as Travelling Matte, Blue Screen Color Separation could be easily done by just opening your Adobe After Effects now. While we complain how irritating it is to work with computer programme now, we should actually thank the creators in the past for coming out with the creations. I wish I could talk more about in my posts about different films (Blade runner is not too bad as well) but test.............
That's it for my blog posting. Oops for not posting every week.
