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bricks , they weren't going down to fine
detail - and guess what, it's conveited from
another format. There were a lot of single
point polygons in it which, once we had
searched the database
and sorted it out,
caused us no further
problems.
'So we solved that
one, got some nice texture
snaps on them, and animated
them in LightWave over
the background plate, matching
the lighting to the background
frame we had. On the
Raptor Plus we've got, which is a
lx MIP54600 machine, we were
rendering the three M1G-29s at
about 500 polygons each for a total
of 1500 polys - not much, but then
we were using full-on motion blur,
say traced shadows and reflections
and we were getting
about six minutes a frame
which was very good at I k
horizontal.
This was the same trick we
piled on Cyberlack. We never render
it the resolution of a film because
ty time we do that the CGI is too
sharp, it just doesn't even remotely
lit into the background. You
end up blurring
th e
image to go into the background
using filters which
take time to do the work. So
we do it at half resolution and
blow it up.
The biggest problem we
had, and the real killer because
NewTek wouldn't give me a beta
copy of LightWave 4, was the lack
of a pixel aspect ratio setting for
LightWave. It's now in version 4, but it
wasn't in 3.5. If you're doing an
anamorphic film you need to have a
squeezed image. Therefore, you need to be
able to render an image at, say, lk x 860 but
at a pixel aspect ratio that will make the
image deliberately squashed so that it would
be right for anamorphic when its stretched
out.
"We couldn't do that in the version of
LightWave we had, so we had to do the
most bizarre renders in LightWave to get
anamorphic results. We had to render twice
the height, then crop it and cut it out, and
then stretch it to get an anamorphic result It
was very hard,
and NewIek
could have
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movies
helped us
out, but... So we
had to be 'creative' and
although it was hard we managed. If you see
the film I would say that nobody would ever
know that they were computer models. On
that point I would definitely agree with Alan.
The Magic Camera Company
had nothing to do with
the VDU displays that are
used throughout the
movie, but he concurred with
my opinion that they looked
like DPaint creations, and when
we discussed the United Artists
logo at the start of the film he
said that he would be 'gobsmacked'
if it wasn't done in
lightWave.