Digital Domain: The Leading Edge of Visual Effects

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Highly recommended for any involved in film art [Posted on 2002-03-21]
Digital Domain has provided some of the finest special effects in the movie world, and this provides the first inside look at the works of a company noted for creating stunning scenes. Their techniques, special effects, and processes are demonstrated visually in frame-by-frame deconstructions which are involving and most illuminating. Highly recommended for any involved in film art.

Great book [Posted on 2002-03-26]
It's a great book, (sure for one who does the job, or who got fired after Titanic, funky George, it ain't a manual)

They explain basics as 8 and 32 bit images, why green and why blue, motion control, 3Dskeletons, modelling etc... very clear and simple
BUT with bloody great pictures, loads and loads and that's what we all want to see,

my boy loves the book,

the singing baby,(cfr SIRevolv)is missing,

frontcover is very nice,

Peolpe making these 'Company Books' should put a (multizone)DVD
with interesting making-offs, with interesting making-offs, with interesting making-offs , with interesting making-offs.... .

The Glory Days are OVER [Posted on 2002-04-10]
This book would have been hot, about 10 years ago. However, the glory days are over. Nothing really new here. I guess thats why they have not been nominated for any visual effects awards in years. Some say most of their origional artists who created Titanic have moved on.

I read a review here where someone bables on and on about working on Lord of the rings, Grinch, A Beautiful Mind and so on but the problem is thoses movies won awards that had nothing to do with visual effects. They didnt produce them either. Just because someone won best actress, or best story doesent mean the effects were any good. Or claiming they did Lord of the rings when in reality the award went to WETA Digital for their work.

This is typical, any movie remotly successful they try to link themselves to profit of the backs of the companies that created them. And they forget to mention about the bombs at the box office they spent a lot of time on like Super Nova or Lake Placed.

For whatever reason its strange they came out with a book like this now. I would save my money for a book on Weta Digital's Lord of the Rings, or Shreak.

Your could argue that well, "its great for kids", but then I could say that about my old computer sitting in the grage because it cant run any programs made after 1995.

What do you know anyway? [Posted on 2003-04-22]
As a book, this is an interesting, if often glowing report of the Digital Domain saga. Anyone who spends that much time around talented, creative and hardworking people is bound to leave biased by that experience...it is a healthy and positive bias born from the atmosphere production engenders.

I would caution those who slate authors and their work to use a spell check before running their ill-informed mouths. (see the previous review).

Reinventing Hollywood and the Movies -- techno-media [Posted on 2003-07-20]
Digital Domain is James Cameron's special effects firm in Venice, California. The book is a story of their challenges and success in creating the new worlds of techno-media where we are immersing ourselves within the story because of the power of special and visual effects. Titanic, Terminator and more -- are used as examples. Visually gorgeous, great cover and lots of terrific information. Focuses JUST on Digital Domain but does introduce us to the world of visual effects that is being created as you read this by the melding of art and science in the new multimedia environment. Beyond the technology there is a brilliance that is influencing all of our communication today -- from the rise of the SCREENAGER who uses multiple communications devices and techniques to the interactive experience that even shopping has become. Shoppertainment, infotainment, edutainment and more -- all are being changed by firms and innovators like Digital Domain and ILM of course. Not easy to read but great to thumb through and then focus on later.

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