Cinevate makes some great products especially for HDSLRs and the Pagasus is no exception. Check out the video they recently posted showing the Pegasus in action! Although, the video is tied around the Pegasus it has some great information and gives an inside look on shooting a commercial with all the gear.

Avatar capitalizes on Performance Capture. Performance Capture or Perfcap, is where actors wear a device that allows cameras to detect tiny facial and body movements in real time. This basically is a digital replacement for hours of make up or a latex costume, even prosthetics, and the results are absolutely stunning!

We are literally living in a world where virtually anything is possible now with digital cinema. The door has just begun to be opened and that is why Hollywood is calling Avatar a revolution in filmmaking!

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson as well as other filmmakers worked on the virtual sets to test the equipment for some of their upcoming films. It seems as if Perfcap is on it’s way to becoming another industry standard like the Green Screen.

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I’m a Behind the Scenes freak and a Movie Science geek. Anything that explains how movies are made, from the magic of Hollywood to the innovations of the garage-effects producer, I’ll watch.

I’ve been laid up for the past two days recovering from dental surgery and I  pulled out a bunch of my favorite movies that have extensive behind-the-scenes (BTS) footage and How It’s Made stories. My favorites are when the directors’ commentaries explain the ingenious tricks they used that help make the movie production possible. Read the rest of this entry »