Science-fiction film "Avatar", released in 2009, is joint US-British product, directed by James Cameron. Already in its first weekend rental "Avatar" has collected $ 21 million in Russia, $ 73 million in the U.S., and $ 232 million in total worldwide.
The film is called a revolutionary breakthrough in the technology of filmmaking, it was first used a specially designed motion capture system (performance capture).
Previously, when filming movies such three-dimensional motion capture system was common. Cameron shared it, and in the film for capturing facial expressions replied camera, mounted on the head and body movements rented a separate remote camera. This has ensured the absolute realism of characters: Suspended equipment recorded the facial expressions, muscle movements, eye movements with unprecedented accuracy to this (with this method about 95% of actions of actors passed their digital copies). A remote camera crew team gave the film a much wider space for motion capture, compared with the same features it had increased by 6 times.
Unlike previous motion capture systems, where the digital environment is added after the movement of the actors were captured, a new virtual camera allowed him to keep track of Cameron with the monitor as virtual copies of the actors interact with the digital world cinema mode real-time. Director could regulate and control the scenes as well as in normal shooting with conventional actors.
The virtual camera director does not see the actors against the background of film studios and movie characters in the rainforest.
The new approach allows the crew partially deny service to make-up artists and technicians who are responsible for the creation of images of aliens, werewolves, witches, demons and other figures. Now you can be anyone or anything else, choose the age, sex change, even without spending time on the complex make-up, which also causes discomfort.
This technological innovation was not the end. The film is made in stereoscopic three-dimensional format. To do this, the director used his own technology «Reality Camera System» with two high-resolution cameras that increase the depth perception.
The film is 40% consists of live action and by 60% - of computer graphics. This new level of gaming and computer movie. To create the world's Avatar took more than a petabyte (1,000 terabytes) of digital storage space to store all the computer-graphics film assets (plants and animals, insects, rocks, mountains and clouds, etc.). For comparison, in the film Titanic took only 2 terabytes to create (and flooding), and ship thousands of passengers.
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