The Science Behind Benjamin Button
Take an in-depth look at the groundbreaking visual effects created for the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
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September 6, 2011 So-Me comes back with his new promo for Justice. He creates the dusty retro world of the band with some beautifully executed camera moves and tricks. Oh, and there’s a Christmas Tree in it as well. Comments
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September 2, 2011 Check out this incredible early digital animation of Ed Catmull’s left hand, thanks to Robby Ingebretsen and his dad. (Via kottke.org.)
September 1, 2011 August 31, 2011 Bran Dougherty-Johnson’s piece entitled “Happiness” for the NY projected art installation project Electric Projected. The piece was based on Erik Otto’s artwork. Sound by Antfood.
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Xaver Xylophon & Laura Junger murder several innocent paper cutouts in this stopmo short exploring the dark side of human behavior. August 26, 2011
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Take an in-depth look at the groundbreaking visual effects created for the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
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For Instanbul’s IF 2009 independent film festival, Ayse Unal of Anima Istanbul teamed up with compositor Ilhan Poyraz to reinterpret the experience of watching a zoetrope in this deceptively simple promo.
I was intrigued by the process, and Ayse was kind enough to share a little making-of action with us:
Did you actually create a physical zoetrope? Or did you mimic the look of a zoetrope using software?
We did not create a physical zoetrope, but we photographed people on a turntable in eight angles. We then made the film mimicking a real life zoetrope using Fusion 5.3.
We wanted to make a 3D previz before hand, however we didn’t have enough time, so we just shot some photographs in our own studio and came to the conclusion eight angles for the same movement in time is enough for the final film we have in mind.