Siggraph 2010 – Day four
Fourth day we attended a great talk about Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. It was a production with a very short time schedule, pre-production started in June 2008, principle photography in September, stage shoot in November, and finally post production from April 2009 to January 2010. We got a round tour of the various characters [...]
No commentsSiggraph 2010 – Day three
Third day kicked off with a nice talk about Iron Man 2, followed by a talk aptly named “Blow $h!t up!,” discussing various rigid body and deformable physics approaches to destruction on movies like 2012. We also visited the exhibition, see images below. We ended the day with a panel discussion about the creation of [...]
No commentsSiggraph 2010 – Day two
Day two started off with another amazing Avatar talk named All About Avatar. Slightly technical as well, it delved deeper into some of the novel techniques that were created by Cameron and Weta Digital, such as the virtual production stage, which allowed the director to move about the set, shooting his actors with a virtual [...]
1 commentSiggraph 2010 – Day one
The first talk talk of Siggraph covered character deformation and rendering techniques for the massive scenes in in the movie Avatar. Instead of using a regular rig system with a weighted skin mesh, the characters was built from the bones up, modeling bones, muscles fascia and outer skin, all simulated for collisions, allowing complex sliding [...]
No commentsHTML5, Flash & the web zeitgeist
In the public feud between Apple and Adobe regarding Flash, HTML5 and open standards, both companies are working hard to shape public opinion. As always when the loudest voices aren’t very honest, it becomes difficult to tell facts from marketing. In fine Stopp tradition, we’ll try to put market buzz in some real-world perspective.
There has [...]
HTML5 Canvas in motion
Soon HTML5 is published as the new standard for html markup and will push xhtml aside. You will know that Stopp isn’t out of the loop. As always, we experiment with new techniques and technologies to provide the best.
This early experiment is using our graphical-profile for video (the rgb-logo) and renders it in real-time.
Currently; only [...]
Stopp just completed the ATG 2010 campaign
Stopp just completed the ATG 2010 campaign for Akestam Holst. The “Do you know your horses” commercials were directed by Mats Lindberg from Traktor through The Producers. The concept for this campaign was to place horses in very human like situations.
4 commentsStopp goes stereoscopic
Filming in stereo or stereoscopy is the word that has been on everybody’s lips lately. Stopp is of course on the case, preparing, testing and starting to build a stereoscopic pipeline. With some stereo jobs already coming in this is truly exciting times for Stopp.
So when Camera Center in Gothenburg arranged a stereo seminar, Stopp’s [...]
