'Harder' and 'more effort' say the same thing. I'm sorry if I got confused there!
No they don't. Neither are exactly easy, but a lot more planning, people and technical know how were required for the old school effects, which speaks to effort, not difficulty.
I'm just say you don't seem to acknowledge the all hard work using these damned computers involves - especially getting it right.
I understand it's hard work, but it's a completely different kind of work. For example, let's compare Alien with Alien Vs Predator. Both are feature heavy use of effect shots, but there is a huge difference in how those effect shots were accomplished.
Let's just explore the ship effects in the two movies. For Alien models and full size set pieces were used, which required someone to conceptualize the ships and another group of people to actually build them, and another group of people to operate them(the landing sequence). While in AVP you could have one guy in a room design, build and operate the ship all on his computer.
When I say effort, I don't just mean the difficulty, but how much had to go into the process and how many people needed to be involved.
Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!
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All_Seeing_Fly
14 years ago
But it's not one guy in a room though, is it.
Depending on the type film of course, but you could need:
* Modellers, as things still have to be built, just inside the computer instead.
* Skilled animators.
* Possibly some digitising rooms to scan people and objects into the computer.
* Motion capture warehouses with animation cleanup people.
* Texturing teams, and lighting.
* Pixel shader programmers.
* The need to be on set with reflection and ambient lighting globes to capture local illumination models - something that this film could have done with, as colour and lighting matches are really important for realism.
* Render farms, needing technical staff.
* Post production teams, to matte the graphics to the film. And do all the overlays and filtering.
* Comunication and co-ordination between all the different units and general project management.
* Ridiculously short deadlines to achieve all this, because some director somewhere thinks it's all easy to do.
It is extraordinary how many teams of people are involved these days.
Having said all that, there does appear to be far too many people on the credits of films these days. It's a wonder they ever get anything done at all!
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srinath_r_htanirs
9 years ago
People who don't bother a lot beyond basic applications think programming and graphic designing is easy.
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