“Gravity†top nominations at Visual Effects Society Awards
Gravity film has topped nominations for the 12th annual Visual Effects Society Awards in eight categories.
January 29th, 2014
Gravity film has topped nominations for the 12th annual Visual Effects Society Awards in eight categories.
In a Visual Effects driven feature, Alfonso Cuaron's space drama leading Sandra Bullock is in the top prize of Outstanding Visual Effects. In addition to awards for Created Environments, Contact music, Outstanding Compositing and Simulation Animation reported.
The Pixar short film Party Central that will accompany Muppets Most Wanted and it hits theaters on March 21st, 2014. The Party Central was going to be relinquished with The Good Dinosaur.
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.
