(영화) 아바타, 영화산업의 새장을 열다
(영화) 아바타, 영화산업의 새장을 열다
And lights, camera, avatar. Does this new way of making movies mean a sequel속편 is simply a click away? From CBS News world headquarters in New York. Avatar is now officially the biggest money making movie of all time. With box office sales topping $1.8 billion, it beats director James Cameron’s own record for Titanic. And as Ben Tracey shows us, Avatar is also reshaping how movies are made.
It’s like nothing movie goers have ever seen. A strikingly surreal꿈 같은 비현실적인 world with amazingly real characters. It’s actually actors transformed into computer-generated characters. Director Cameron reportedly spent $400 million to make Avatar. And now that this world is created, most of the imagery stored in computers, the inevitable필연적인 sequels, which Cameron has already announced, will be quicker and cheaper to make. He can hire the same actors and use their already-created digital faces, made here at this University of southern California lab.
Here's how it works. These 156 lights and two high resolution cameras captured in depth images of the actor's faces. The data from those images help create the digital characters, the shape of their faces and eyes right down to every pore땀구멍 and wrinkle주름. Their images can now be dropped into future scenes in future films. "And now it paves the way for other movies to be made with this technology. I think that will pay big dividends배당금 in the future for Hollywood and for individual filmmakers.”
Avatar is also giving a huge boost사기진작 to 3D film making. 3D showings with their higher ticket prices make up 65% of the film's overseas box office and nearly 80% of its US draw. That helped Avatar sink침몰시키다 Titanic’s 13-year-old box office record in just 40 days. And now that Cameron has the technology in place, he could eventually dethrone권좌에서 몰아내다 himself again as king of the movie world. Ben Tracey, CBS News, Hollywood. And that’s the CBS Evening News for tonight. I’m Katie Couric in New York. Thank you for watching. I’ll see you tomorrow from Washington.