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thehefnerI suppose several of you already knew this about THE FOUNTAIN, but I hadn't till I read this interview:
AVC: There's been a lot of press about The Fountain's special effects. You didn't use CGI at all?
DA: There's no CGI. Computers were used. CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.
AVC: So when we're seeing the tree in a giant bubble, that's an actual bubble on a petri dish?
DA: We photographed soap bubbles and used their textures. We built the tree on a stage. We also built a model that was about six feet tall. And we used that as well for certain shots. We went back and forth.
AVC: Why did you decide to go that route with your effects?
DA: Because I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.
My god. My GOD. That is so goddamn cool.
I have got to see this movie again. I rescind what I said before about not recommending this movie to anyone, now I want everyone to see it. Even if they don't like it, get it, whatever, I just want this film to be seen and to hear other people's interpretations. This really, honestly, just might be our generation's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
Meantime, I just bought the FOUNTAIN graphic novel that Aronofsky wrote, just in case the movie never got made. It adds a whole new perspective on the same story, and I'll be studying and pondering upon that for days to come.
AVC: There's been a lot of press about The Fountain's special effects. You didn't use CGI at all?
DA: There's no CGI. Computers were used. CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.
AVC: So when we're seeing the tree in a giant bubble, that's an actual bubble on a petri dish?
DA: We photographed soap bubbles and used their textures. We built the tree on a stage. We also built a model that was about six feet tall. And we used that as well for certain shots. We went back and forth.
AVC: Why did you decide to go that route with your effects?
DA: Because I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.
My god. My GOD. That is so goddamn cool.
I have got to see this movie again. I rescind what I said before about not recommending this movie to anyone, now I want everyone to see it. Even if they don't like it, get it, whatever, I just want this film to be seen and to hear other people's interpretations. This really, honestly, just might be our generation's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
Meantime, I just bought the FOUNTAIN graphic novel that Aronofsky wrote, just in case the movie never got made. It adds a whole new perspective on the same story, and I'll be studying and pondering upon that for days to come.
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Date: 2006-11-28 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-29 06:39 pm (UTC)CGI that doesn't look like CGI has been one of my current kicks. So far Zemeckis has been my hero. It'd be nice to see others.