JAMES Bond has a new weapon to look his best while he goes about his day job - but its not from the British Secret Service, rather, a team from India.
January 19th, 2014
JAMES Bond has a new weapon to look his best while
he goes about his day job - but its not from the British Secret
Service, rather, a team from India.
Keeping his
cool while saving the world and performing death defying stunts is what
defines the famous secret agent. And in his latest mission in Skyfall,
it is a special effects award winning Moving Pictures Company (MPC),
which provided the visual effects of the film and has made sure that
Bonds action scenes looked authentic.
The
23rd installment of the Bond series which stars Daniel Craig gets its
release.In Skyfall the Bangalore team provided around 20 per cent of
the visual effects in the film. Along with the London team, they helped
by adding CG (Computer Generated) effects on explosions, changed
backgrounds on the action sequences and removed the wires and rigs used
to help the 007 agent perform his flashy stunts.
In
India they have worked on around 14 minutes of the film within four
months. There was also a fire sequence in the last scene, so there was a
requirement for a fire effect which we did by adding CG fire.
Hopefully we can see more number of Hollywood films getting their visual effects done in India
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
