For years, Hollywood has struggled with the problem of integrating CGI into their productions. Third and Seventh’s Alex Roman, on the other hand, has no such problem — as evidenced by his “Above Everything Else” commercial for Silestone. [video:http://vimeo.com/15630517 635×355] Well, to be honest, I suppose the issue of “integration” is still present in Roman’s work, as … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a fascinating/disturbing video from Stargate Studios that revealed the increasingly unrecognizable use of CGI and digital backlots in TV and film production. (“Don’t worry. No reality was harmed in the making of this film. In fact, I’m not even sure any was used.”) Now, courtesy of /Film, here’s a … Read more
Over at the frequently amusing, ever-quirky blog Within the Cranium, I ran across this demo reel from Stargate Studios, “a high tech production company offering visual effects and production services to the film and television industries.” It’s called simply “Trust No Video.” And that pretty much says it all. Some of those sequences contain fairly obvious CGI elements. (What … Read more