Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Shift to 3D, History of Animation.
- 1994
- Stephen Spielberg, Jeffrey
Katzenberg, and David Geffen
form new Hollywood Studio
- Dreamworks
SKG
- First film released 1997
- Peacemaker
- After that mega hits:
- Deep Impact
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Prince of Egypt
- American Beauty
- Road trip
- Chicken Run
- Meet the Parents and many more.
- 1995
- TOY STORY
- 1st fully 3D film - more $$
than any other film in 1995
- John Lasseter wins Oscar 4
deveopment and
application of techniques
used in movie.
- Wavefront & Alias Merge
- Alias|Wavefront
- Maya is later developed
under Alias|Wavefront
name
- Maya now
owned by
Autodesk
- Disney - Pocahantas
- More adult themes and tones
- Does not appeal to kids
- Makes less $$
- 1996
- Disney 34th "The
Hunchback of Notre Dame"
- Artistic and visual merits
- Hand-drawn and computerized animation
- Especially in terms of
crowd generation.
- 1997
- "Geri's game"
- Pixar's first short since 1989
- Wins Oscar for best
animated short
- Pixar use this as a test for
subdivision surface modelling
techniques - used in "A Bugs Life"
and "Toy Story 2"
- Old man
playing chess
with himself.
- Hercules - Disney's 35th
- Critically acclaimed but only grossed US $99m
- This was a sign of
Disney's becoming less
popular
- 1998
- Dreamworks SKG
- The Prince of Egypt
- Alias|Wavefont Maya 1.0 Released, all other software obsolete.
Inc Alias Power Animator
- Mulan - Disney's 36th
- Different type of female lead
- True heroine, not a fairy princess
- Pixar - "A Bugs Life"
2nd feature
- Other animations seeing
less $$ But Bugs life earns
4x production cost
- Increasing appeal of 3D animation
for viewers and producers
- 1999
- George Lucus - Episode One:
The Phantom Menace"
- Live action but 90% digitally created
- Jar Jar Binks first highly detailed
photo-real 3D character to interact
with actors
- 66 digital characters mixed with
live action.
- Brad Bird - The Iron Giant
- Excellent animation
and story
- Bad marketing by WB
= poor box office $$
- Disney - 37th Tarzan -
best hit before slump
- Disney 38th - Fantasia 2000
- Pixar - 3rd feature
- Toy Story 2
- Earns more than US$245m
domestically surpassing every
animated movie to that date
except The Lion King
- Three major shifts that caused
the 2D.#D evolution
- 1
- The changed aesthetics of
audience by visual effects
driven movies
- Movies like independence day, twister,
Titanic men n black - people loved
the SFX
- People view CG as visually better/ more exciting
- 2
- Broadening the
audience of CG
through visual
effects-driven
movies
- Before VFX
popular, great
divide between
kids and
mainstream
- During 90's kids and parents
went to movies like Titanic
and Jurassic Park
- Believability
provided something
for everyone.
- 3
- Bad stories in
traditional
feature
animated films
- Studios thought they
could get more viewers
by doing more adult
themes.
- Instead of writing stories
to appeal to the kid in
us, they wrote adults
stories and hoped kids
would like it too.
- After The Lion King, everyone tried to
follow that mold and create large
epic musicals. Stories became
overworked by creatives.