MILL FILM TALKS
TOMB RAIDER
Copyright 2001 www.tombraiderchronicles.com Source:
BBC
[ July 6th 2001 ]
Mill
Film, the U.K. based special effects company charged
with the digital trickery for Paramount Pictures
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider motion picture, talks
to the British Broadcasting Corporation about
the inclusion of CGI effects into Angelina Jolies
combat sequences:
There
are two really big hero sequences when Angelina
Jolie is in combat with opponents who are computer
generated - I think they are fantastic sequences,
but it's so difficult for us beecause we don't
see the whole movie. It's very much in the Indiana
Jones mould - she's got tremendous presence. We
actually had a team at Pinewood alongside the
director doing "previsualisation" - designing
sequences before they are shot. It gives the director
a moving storyboard - and it gives our people
greater exposure to the real world of production.
Ultimately the end result of that does show on
screen.
Mill
Film was also quizzed on whether a requested effect
by a Director was ever deamed impossible to create
during the tight schedule of a motion picture
project:
The answer
is rarely no, but it might not be a simple yes.
It's an interactive process. The adage that most
things are possible given enough time and money
holds true. It probably wasn't true 10 years ago.
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