Lectures 6-7. Computer Animation and Digital Cinema
 

1. Use of computer techniques in traditional filmmaking
VIFX/VIDEO IMAGE Demo Reel (USA). 1996.
key techniques: 3-D computer animation; digital composing; digital painting.

    Special case: Virtual Actors / Motion capture:
    Acclaim motion capture system (USA).  1994.
    The music video for Bjork's single "All Is Full Of Love," 1999 (making of). Full video

2. DV (digital video) filmaking: New Realism?
Timecode (director: Mike Figgis, 2000). Photos.

3. Expanded Cinema -- new forms of computer-based cinema

    Motion rides:
    Douglas Trumball (USA) documentary, 1993.
    Boss Film Studios (USA). "Journey to Technotopia." 1993.

    Motion Graphics: film + graphic design + typography

4. Net cinema:

films designed specifically for the Web:
example: little movies (Lev Manovich, 1994 --)

online distribution of short and feature-length films:

article on Net cinema in Wired 7.10

examples of sites devoted to more experimental Web films: www.newvenue.com; www.bitcsreen.com;

examples of sites distributing all genres of cinema: www.atomfilms.com; www.ifilm.com.

5. New film interfaces

David Blair (USA). "WaxWeb." 1994 --
Art+Com (Germany), Invisible Shape of Things Past

6. Computer Animation: special case: representing new space

Beriou (France). "Tablea D'Amour." 1994. - 2 1/2 space
Tamas Walitsky (Hungary). "The Garden" (1992); "The Forest," (1993) - diffirent perspectival systems
Christian Boustani (France). "Brugge," "A Viagem" -- intergration of computer animation, compositing and live action.
 
 
LINKS:
Lev Manovich, Micro-media and Macromedia columns at www.television.com/tv2k
Digital Cinema conference, MIT, 11/00