Beowulf - CG movie

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:19 pm

just saw Beowulf - good movie. It's actually 100% 3D computer animated, but looks nothing like the usual animated stuff, much more like realistic!

Angelina Jolie computer version looks a lot like the real thing....

Quite a violent and gory piece of animation though - surprised me

check it out - could be the sign of the future, where movies will be all computer generated

talk about polygons!!! Not to mention, fur,hair etc etc

trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beowulf/

Neobloodline · Post by **Neobloodline** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:02 pm

They used Houdini to model and render for that movie... You can get the home trial version free and it's the same as paid except the watermark. Pretty cool program.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:40 am

xD I dunno... I saw it quite some time ago (the 2D-version only, although there is a 3D-cinema, close to us, which played the 3D-version)
And it didn't really sweep me off my feet...
Though, now I *might* know the reason...
It's that Uncanny Valley-effect...
The funny thing was, that my sitting neighbour did NOT know, that it's *fully* animated... He didn't even notice xD (I did, but ok, I was "warned" in advance^^) After the film, he told me, that Some parts looked pretty animated. When I told him, that it's fully animated, he was SOOOO dumbfolded xD It was really funny^^

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:56 am

it lacks radiosity or something like that

pxl666 · Post by **pxl666** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:20 am

personally - i didnt like this movie - some effects were crappy (ocean foam was terrible) and animation still lacks smoothness (u can say where keyframes change) i do recommend to see VEXILE and APPLESEED 2 (makina something) - they are much better animated...yet it still looks lame...maybe we still have to wait...

pxl666 · Post by **pxl666** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:25 am

Kram1032 wrote:xD I dunno... I saw it quite some time ago (the 2D-version only, although there is a 3D-cinema, close to us, which played the 3D-version)
And it didn't really sweep me off my feet...
Though, now I *might* know the reason...
It's that Uncanny Valley-effect...

yee thats what im talking about - u can clearly see that motion stops and starts - live things never move this way , we are never that still and we never have such a pauses within motion - hard to believe that ur friend didnt notice this animation was entirely CG...btw

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:51 am

I was really surprised that he didn't notice, actually...
But besides knowing about it, being CG, I also had the advantage of recognizing typical CG stuff, in a way... (If you try to differentiate Indigo renders - the proper, noise free ones - from real photos, you learn a lot about what's real and what not^^) - I think, he did NOT think, it's *100%* CG, because of Angelina Jolie, who really looked damn real... - in some parts of the film, at least^^

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:06 am

I like AJ's body in this movie

Gog · Post by **Gog** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:41 pm

It wasn't the uncanny valley that made the film poor it was the crap dialogue in the first 40 minutes

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:45 am

Yeah, the story also wasn't that great, but some parts of the animation also ran strange...

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:03 am

gees guys - I still enjoyed it

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:52 pm

Hello CoolColJ,

Enjoy it extra for me because I want to see it but have not had the time.

Gog · Post by **Gog** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:23 pm

Sorry if I sounded harsh, I did enjoy it but I was also disappointed I had expected better so feel let down. For me the sad thing was that the story / dialogue just didn't live up to the animation. I can honestly say I thought FInal Fantasy, Spirits within did a better job of sucking you into the story while trying to give a realisitic level of animation.

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:26 pm

funny, I thought the opposite, I just couldn't get into the FF movie, even the critics and box office agree with me

I wish the FF movie actually had more to do with the games.

Gog · Post by **Gog** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:34 pm

I've never played the FF games so my expectations were probably different! whereas I spent quite a while studying the beowulf story as part of english literature at school and could remember that it made it made a great saga, so I thought the film would be full of fantastic imagery that is there in the written material. I guess it comes down to the same old thing though - films of something familiar often appear poor (whether book or game think of the films of Starship Troopers, Doom or Street Fighter none of the films can match the book or games)

Just a thought makes sense doesn't it studying a nordic legend as part of english literature

Beowulf - CG movie

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