The Pursuit of Character

Looking for that illusion of life…

Archive for January, 2009

January-5-09

Girl Fight (spline)

posted by Freddy

I just uploaded a splined version of a 2-character dialogue shot I worked out through the holidays. Click the link below to check it out. Any comments and crits are more than welcome. :)

Girl Fight – spline

January-2-09

Benjamin Button on fxguide

posted by Freddy

After watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (great movie by the way!), I’ve been wanting to know how they pulled off the aging effects for the film. To me, it worked seamlessly and there wasn’t a part that took me out of the movie. To see him from transforming from old to young was amazing and I have to say congrats to the studios involved!

Below is a link to an article on fxguide where they discuss the aging effects in the movie. It’s really interesting to see how they pulled it off.

 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

fxguide – The Curious Case of Aging Visual Effects

Excerpt from the article: “But even those with an appreciation of the power of vfx will be stunned to learn that for the first 52 minutes of this epic motion picture, the head of Brad Pitt’s character is a CGI creation. “

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