VFX: Water Depiction as Science and Art
Dec. 28th, 2014 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineThis is from ILM's YouTube channel.
Battleship may not be the best SF/naval combat movie ever made, but the work that goes into visuals as done by the likes of ILM and those who've come along since then never fails to impress. Living out in the prairies when I first started reading about their work when the company was called "Apogee", I was tempted to shift my ambitions from cartoonist to VFX worker. Severely tempted. Which may explain why I put myself into student debt for eight years to take animation at Algonquin College. Computers were just starting to have an impact at that point and Babylon 5 was about to prove that such tech was a viable way of Getting the Job of the Moment Done...
Battleship may not be the best SF/naval combat movie ever made, but the work that goes into visuals as done by the likes of ILM and those who've come along since then never fails to impress. Living out in the prairies when I first started reading about their work when the company was called "Apogee", I was tempted to shift my ambitions from cartoonist to VFX worker. Severely tempted. Which may explain why I put myself into student debt for eight years to take animation at Algonquin College. Computers were just starting to have an impact at that point and Babylon 5 was about to prove that such tech was a viable way of Getting the Job of the Moment Done...
