Photo-realistic 3D animation is the most awesome technology. It makes 3D movies seem to ridiculously miss the point. Of course, there is still the challenge of integrating real people, but the potential is amazing.
This is a compositing breakdown of the astonishing Third & Seventh. It’s a great breakdown because I can’t seem to stop believing I’m looking at photographs. I love the fascination with depth of field lens effects. We will always tend to exaggerate what we are simulating.
Theatrical projection mapping, ie. a space is mapped in 3D, animations are created in the virtual scene space, and then projected onto the actual scene space - in this case, accompanied by actors.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Amazing light field camera creates images with infinite focus. User selectable depth of field.
The light field camera does not have a focus control, it seems. Everything is both in focus and out of focus at the same time. (I bet the images are rather big.)
This screen grab of a light field photo is called, Glamour girls at the Egyptian Museum. It’s one of the best in the Lytro Picture Gallery.
In the picture above, for example, the viewer can move the focal point to any of the four models. That is, when viewing it with a proper viewer. The image above is a screen grab from a Flash gallery. In the gallery, the user can change the focal point. I set the focus on the woman in blue and screen grabbed it.
I chose it because it had four obvious focal points. Many of the others effectively have 2 focal points.
I wonder what the film implications are. Doesn’t it make 3D as it is currently be marketed look funny and sad?
I bet the follow focus makers are shaking in their boots ;-)
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