The Science Behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I actually didn’t enjoy the movie but at the time I thought the transformation of Benjamin over the years was astonishing seamless filmmaking. Being a geek I checked out the behind the scenes film created by Digital Domain, the company who provided the visual effects.

I then found stumbled upon a specfic site detailing more of the effects, makeup etc and I was amazed by the level of detail that the production has gone into to show how they created the effects. The realisation that for half of the film the Brad Pitt performance is CGI motion tracked onto other actors really does show there is no separation between realtity and hyper-reality. As the film proceeds, the de-aging process applied to Brad and Cate gives you a chill that film making has now moved into a new era of visual manipulation.

This certainly gives me hope that the forthcoming James Cameron film ‘Avatar‘ will be able to live up to the lofty claims of a photo-realistic CGI film.

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