For example, in the movie Hart??™s War starring Bruce Willis, animators used
LightWave to add snow outside a moving train. If you saw the movie, you wouldn??™t even
think twice that the snow wasn??™t real. Or how about the movie A Beautiful Mind starring
Russell Crowe? There??™s a scene where a little girl is running around a park, surrounded by
pigeons. If you??™ve ever run toward a pigeon, you??™d know that as soon as you get close enough,
it flies away. But in A Beautiful Mind, director Ron Howard needed the girl to be a figment
of the main character??™s imagination. Because she??™s not real, the birds do not notice her and
don??™t fly away. This too was done in 3D. However, achieving this movie magic took more
than modeling, texturing, and animation; it all comes down to compositing.
If you took a movie of a street and then brought it into LightWave, you could easily place
a 3D object, such as a car, into the shot. After you??™ve taken your shots with your camera
and set up your 3D objects, you need to composite them to match the scene??”to look as
if they??™re integrated into the footage. This,my friends, is an art all its own.
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