Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Method Studio's Diorama film


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Method Studio creates a whole new Halo 3 experience by making a film with dioramas. In the film nothing moves until the very last part. It is "almost dream-like ground-level tour of a battlefield frozen in a moment of a time."

As it might be questioned that there is no visual effect involved in it, yet actually there is. The VFX supervisor participated in the project, by doing pre-visualization and planning of the whole shot entirely in CG environment. They build the whole scene in CG with buildings, effects, and characters in it to previsualize the settings and number of dioramas they would have to use in really shooting.

It is amazing they Method Studio applied different approach smartly- sculpturing the diorama, planning out in CG-to make this astonishing piece. Even the characters and explosions in the film doesn't move (not until the very end), yet it is still very dramatic and the story is told compellingly.

Click here to view the film.

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