Re: Is it composited... was(Lent...detailed description)

[P3D Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|
|**********  Based on a show about the making of the Disney film, they did
|indeed use real live puppies. Thousands of them. They had to hire a lot of
|trainers because every six weeks required a new batch since they grow so
|fast. It was mind boggling to hear about. That doesn't rule out the use of
|computer generated puppies for one or more scenes though!
|

Really? The show *I* saw very specifically said that there was no way
they could control 99 puppies (although they did use 3 adult dogs)
and get them to hit their mark :-) Maybe there was *indeed* some switching 
back and forth betweed CG and real.

They even showed the polygonal proto-puppy and the articulated splines
used to simulate dogs running, etc. They said they had one basic dog,
and just randomly generated spots for the others. They had a several
second shot showing them flip thru the various dogs - it went like
"puppy 55", "puppy 56", etc - and there was a supplemental comment field
which was occasionally filled in with a specific dog's name (who were
character actors, I assume :-)

There was one specific example where the camera was looking down on 
what appeared to be a sidewalk (maybe snowy at night? I haven't seen
the film) without the dogs, then again with them. They used a light
pen (or something simiar) to specify the flight path for each dog.
I tend to watch these sort of things pretty closely, but unfortuately
didn't have a tape in the vcr at the time :-(

Dang - I can't remember where I saw that. I know it wasn't on Disney
Channel, though, since I don't subscribe to that. It might have been
on 20-20 (or something similar) in their "State of the Art" segment.

Did anyone else see that? Or have I stayed too long up here withtout any
air :-)

THANKS

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