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In recent years the use of computer graphics for visual effects has become
pervasive in the entertainment industry. Especially in the genre of digital
features. Over the short history of computer graphics in this context,
CG software has become ever more powerful and affordable.
Due to these advances, Maelstrom II will be almost entirely computer generated. Only the main character, Cliff Leyland, will be performed by a human actor. Convincing fully synthetic actor performances are still challenging and expensive. The actor will perform in a blue screen environment, wearing a bluescreen suit with only his face visible. The strategy will be to shoot his facial performance with a high definition camera. Spots on his blue screen suit will be tracked to extract position in 3D space. Once extracted, the actor's face will be tracked and composited onto a computer generated body. For the scenes where Cliff is in the deep space rescue suit, the actors face will be composited into the helmet of a CG space suit. |
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Maelstrom II Screenplay Copyright © by Jeroen Lapre' 2003. Maelstrom II first published in Playboy 1963. Collected in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. Copyright © by Arthur C. Clarke 1963, 2000 A Distant Galaxy Production PO Box 817 Forest Knolls CA 94933 USA Business license number: 023379. Registered in the county of Marin. |