Re: SFX in 3D movies

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:18 PM 7/31/96, P3D Gregory J. Wageman wrote:
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>As I've said all along, certain classes of effects work just fine.  But
>isn't it funny that even though these two SF films were made almost ten
>years after Star Wars, they don't come anywhere close to creating the
>imaginary world that Star Wars depicted, because Star Wars relied so
>heavily on matte shots, composited motion-controlled models and even
>rotoscoping (for example to remove the wheels from under Luke's land
>speeder in the scenes where they couldn't use the one on a boom).  If
>you want a challenge, try getting a rotoscoped scene to look right in
>3D!
>

What's "rotscoping"?

-Jim C.


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