Sticking To What I Know... Again...

So clearly I was going to another thing on CGI stuff and rendering. However, the problem with this post is that there isn't enough info online about the rendering side of things. But anyway, here we go!

The new Amazing Spider Man movie that is coming out. Clearly not all of it is live action, especially the scenes of Spider Man flying through the air swinging on his web. This is clearly computer generated. Now, to make something this crisp would obviously take a lot of computing power to create and render to its finished product. Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere how long or how much computing that would take, but I can tell you that it would be a fair amount of both.

Not only will the swinging scenes be needing a lot of the computing power, the fighting sequences will need it as well. These parts of the movie not only have super intense actions happening, a lot of it isn't actually real life and is either being used with green screen or completely animated. For example, the part where Jamie Fox is going after Spider Man and he is sort of "immersed" into the electricity field, that is clearly not real because no human can be absorbed into electricity. Kind of going off of that, the Green Goblin isn't real either because, well, we haven't exactly come up with that technology yet.

So needless to say, without getting too repetitive, a lot of these scenes are going to require a lot of time to render because of the quality of the image and how many frames are being used to capture all of the action. If you want to see the extended trailer, it's just down below.

Amazing 3D in the Amazing Spider-man

So this weekend a friend and I went to see, you'll never guess...The Hunger Games :-) And yes the 3D animation used to create the Capitol and other VFX was awesome in this movie too. However, what stood out to me even more was the sneak peek I got for the 3D work that has been done on the new Spider-man movie due to be released this summer. Not surprisingly the storyline and writing appear to be relatively weak but visually the movie looks awesome. Having taken Special Topics in 3D last semester I know exactly how difficult it is to make even a simple character using 3D animation, let alone design an entire city. While, I don't think watching this trailer on a computer screen really does the effects justice, seeing them in the theater was impressive. Not because the effects were flashy and in your face but because the design of the city and especially the shot at the very end where the radio antenna falls look so real. If you're not in the business of animation or movies then you probably wouldn't even know right away that it was computer generated. Keeping in tune with the legendary status of the last few Spider-man movies even  the titles in the trailer are well designed and I'm excited to see what they come up with for the opening sequence!