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    Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

    in Box Office Discussion

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    The advantage of his perfcap method is that he can edit the movie right during the shoot with a device that can cut and frame at will because the perfcap set is covered with captors in 360° that is rendered on a device called Virtual Cam that Cameron handles around the plate. It's like toying with photos on a smartphone except it's a 360° 3D app on a movie set, Cameron can move into the virtual set around the actors being rendered as aliens in low poly, panning, zooming in/out, cutting where and when he wants for another angle in real time with fingers swipe/trackballs. As a result, the movie is already blocked and cut rough during the shooting so VFX teams can already work on the final renders very early in parrallel while the movie is still shooting on stage, VFX post-production is done through production. That saves time and help shooting several movies at once but the challenge in this form of pipeline is to keep focus, store, manage and handle those ginormous amount of data on a steady and tight pace.

     

    Here is Cameron using the Virtual Cam and I'm sure all the R&D that is taking place right now has contributed to make it more efficient and "user-friendly" to shoot all the movies back to back:

    avatar-set-cameron-02.jpg

     

     

    ooooh very cool, thanx for share !!!

     

    Marek

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    UltraHD Blurays and players will start coming by Christmas 2015

    in Home Theater Cinema

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    more important thing for me is not resolutions but HDR and EXPANDED color !!!! to get 10bits per channel instead of 8bits is a BIG THING

     

     

    http://www.cnet.com/news/ultra-hd-4k-blu-ray-what-we-know/

     

    "High Dynamic Range: 4KBD will have HDR in the form of metadata, with Dolby Vision and other HDR formats as options. HDR is really cool. Part of this is an expansion of the bit-depth possible with 4KBD."

     

    "10-bit: Both HDR and expanded color are possible, thanks to a higher bit-depth of 10, greater than current HD's 8-bit. At the very least, this means more steps of gradation (no banding, not that Blu-ray had much)."

     

    but I agree with this :

    "Sadly, most people won't care. Worse, most people won't know there's a difference. 4K is 4K to most people (and if you're reading this, I'm not counting you in the "most" group). That's a battle not likely to be won by an archaic physical media, no matter how shiny it's marketed as being. Think that's pessimistic? How many of your friends still watch DVDs?"

    Wednesday Actuals: JW 19.9 [Not the PIXAR thread]

    in Numbers and Data

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    Nice. :)

    I will always love Lucasfilm. When I recently watched the SW7 trailer in the tgeater and the Lucasfilm logo appeared it was mesmerising as it has always been.

    This year has been great. JW hits it big. Now hoping the same from Star Wars this December. It will be great.

    The only thing that would make it better if they announce a new Indy movie.

     

    don't talk about new INDY :) that would too cool too super this year :) I can manage only SW7 info now :D :D

    WEEKEND ESTIMATES | 05.08.15 - 05.10.15

    in Numbers and Data

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    Just a reminder, Disney gets about 45-50% of the share from DOM, 40-45% of the share from OS but 20-25% of the share from China.

     

    Assuming 450M DOM, 300M and 750M OS, that means they get between 562.5M and 637.5M.

     

    That's really not that much above the budget which is likely underestimated. Far from the amount the 'it made 1.5M WW' would let you expect.

     

    not that much more ? for real ?

    production budget is listed as 250 mil. even if advertising and all other expenses are 100-150mil... they will get at least 150-200 mil. and that's not counting DVD+Blu-ray, TV rights, etc... clearly another 200-300 mil, and of course "TOYS"....

     

    so again ? not that much above budget ?

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