For the lines that are not as expressive (on the hands or the chin over the neck), we wrote software for machine learning to automate that process for the rest of the drawings.” “The geometry generated from those lines made it more immersive. “Then we had to write tools to create rigs out of those lines to be used by the animators,” Dimian said. And then it would be cool if you could actually make those key offsets shift with a character, depending on how fast a character is moving.”īut the biggest innovation involved Sony writing new software to allow ink-line drawing over the CG character model without being anchored to the model. “And then it would be cool if you could give me the ability to shift it as far as I want. “Then I thought it would be cool to give me the ability to make it any color that I want,” Thompson said. And at the top of his wish list was removing motion blur. 'White Noise': All the Details on Noah Baumbach's Film Starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwigįirst, Thompson consulted with Danny Dimian, Sony’s VFX supervisor.
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Oscars 2023: Best Animated Feature PredictionsĮmmy Predictions: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie - 'Lotus' Buds Is 'Marcel the Shell' Animated Enough for the Oscars? “So I thought it would be amazing to make a movie from Miles Morales’ point of view, living inside a comic book and staring out at me: those Ben-Day dots, those screen tones, those offsets, the line work.” “As somebody obsessed with comics my whole life, I had seen films translated from comics and I always thought something got lost in the translation,” said Thompson.