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20 mar. 2009

“Benjamin Button, Behind the Scenes”

As far as I know, this is the first practical application of the motion capture technology that impressed me so much in 2006. Interestingly, it looks like they didn’t use it to capture the performance itself, but just to create some sort of animatable mask of Brad Pitt. I can think of several reasons for that, the most likely being that it’s simpler to age the 3D model once and use old-school animation on it, rather than capture the high-definition performance and have to add wrinkles and skin folds for every single frame.

I’m glad this technology has been test-driven in such a successful movie; can’t wait to see it used that much more widely now that it got an Oscar.

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