Friday, February 22, 2013

Building Digital Worlds For Blockbuster Movies Using Photography


This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers




I had to watch this video three times. It simply blew me away. For years movies have been created using green screens, as is the case here with the 2012 hit “The Avengers.” The part that amazed me in this behind the scenes video is the amount of detail that is captured to perfection by the digital artists and how they team up with photographers to recreate reality spheres to insert the actors. Read on to check out some of the facts on how it was created.

Check out these facts about the movie pulled from the the video…

- While the movie plot takes place in New York, all but the aerial footage was filmed elsewhere.

- The shots of the actors down on the streets of New York City was actually captured in New Mexico on a green screen set and parts of it in streets of Cleveland.

- A CGI playground covering 20 blocks of the city had to be recreated.

- The team photographed 7 miles of streets, from cranes, on top of 35 different buildings, from every angle possible shooting a total of over 250,000 photos.

- From the photos they recreated over 2000 different reality spheres which were projected onto …



By: Trevor Dayley


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