On 6/24/2013 5:16 PM, Tom Duff wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Henry Baker wrote:
Many Hollywood people hate this non-film 'look', as it eliminates most of the last vestiges of the viewer not being in the scene along with the actors.
Reference? I'd be really interested in knowing who says this.
My son, who works in CGI for movies and games, says there is a lot of discussion over such topics and preserving "the movie look" both in terms of frame rate and also lighting and color saturation.
Movies can also be made 'frame-rate independent' by using sophisticated computer vision algorithms to figure out which objects are moving relative to other objects; once this is done, the 'in-between' positions can be simulated.
Again: reference? In this case, I don't believe it (in general, though you can certainly fake it in some easy cases.) Aliases, once introduced, cannot reliably be removed.
That's right. But I think what was meant is that in creating a computer animation you can make it to be shown at any specified frame rate and not show aliasing at that rate. Of course this is one of the things that Hollywood types object to and CGI sequences will deliberately introduce the aliasing so "it looks like a movie", depending on the ambiance to be created. Brent