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Well the results are in, a few of my chums and I went to see Beowulf (In my previous blog entry I spelled it Beowolf, my apologizes to all diehard Beowulf fans…).

We went to see this film in New Berlin where they were showing it on the Digital Projector, in stunning Digital 3D which is the newest advances in 3D technology.  At first I was a little worried that this might detract from my opinion on Motion Capture but it didn’t, in some ways it help to further understand Motion Capture.

Before the movie started there were two trailers, one for a U2 movie concert experience, and one for  Journey to the Center of the earth, both of these movies are going to be show in digital 3D, so it was nice to be able to see what our 3D glasses can do with live action.  Journey is the first digital live action 3D movie…and the picture quality was just stunning, I am going to see the U2 film, just to experience it, despite not liking U2.

Anyhow, onto Beowulf…my first reaction within the first few minutes was that the effect that the Motion Capture created was very restrictive and limiting, and by that I mean, all the action felt as though it was shot entirely underwater…every limb, and mouth and movement seemed to be at half it’s normal speed, this is one of the drawbacks of rotoscoping as well…there is no sense of resistance or gravity…at least from my own experience of rotoscoping.

So as a whole I thought the technique had it’s purpose, the character design of Grandal was amazing, and as a whole it was an enjoyable moviegoing experience…and as I stated above I enjoyed the 3D, however the novelty of it wore of rather quickly…but that doesn’t deter me from liking it more…

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