Sunday, February 7, 2010

Lights, cameras, action: Cue the robots

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"The computer is the devil incarnate,” says visual-effects guru Scott Farrar. “It wants to be perfect, and we’re doing everything we can to blend this natural world back into the mix.” For the Oscar-winning Industrial Light and Magic veteran, working on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was largely about getting it wrong. “You wouldn’t believe how mired we get into what aberrations of the lens should be seen,” he says of using digital trickery on computer-generated characters to emulate the distortion of analog lenses that capture human performers and physical environments.

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