1. John Bacic ITMG-100-05 Technology Research Assignment

2.  The process of creating images through a computer such as landscapes, objects, and characters

3.  Allows for film makers to go above and beyond what is physically possible and explore their imaginations  Ability to control the world of the movie in whatever way your mind allows http://www.matteworld.com/film/2011/captai n_america.html

4.  4 Basic Steps:  Modeling  Animation  Rendering  Compositing http://www.matteworld.com/film/2009/termin ator_salvation.html

5.  Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”  Tron (1982)  Jurassic Park (1993)  Toy Story (1995)  The Matrix (1999)  The Lord of the Rings (2001)  Avatar (2009)

6. Hitchcock won the first ever award for Best Visual Effects in a Movie

7. Computers generated static images, but could not automatically put them into motion. The technology did not yet exist for a shot to contain both live actors and computer animation.

8. It was the first film to integrate convincingly real computer generated characters into a fully live-action movie

9. As the first fully CGI-based full-length film in history, everything in the movie was created purely from a computer and marked a huge milestone in the world of CGI improvements

10. Still cameras surrounded an object and then would activate sequentially. Then, single frames from each camera are arranged and displayed to show an orbiting viewpoint of an action frozen in time or as hyper-slow motion.

11. MASSIVE produced armies of digital orcs, elves, and humans to appear on the screen as if real people, capable of thinking and acting on their own. Motion Capture for Gollum

12. Created a whole new world filled with fantasy creatures and floating mountains, a planet with its own life and personality

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