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Moviestar |
Moviestar is an interactive installation by Marieke Verbiesen & Neeltje Sprengers.
The installation moulds old and new media together in order to create a reallife moving filmset.
Classic 16mm film, animation, robotics, sound and motiontracking are used to simulate a real life filmset where visitors play the mainrole. |
A miniature robotic filmset forms the background for the movie, while interactive animations come are activated once a visitor enters the filmset.
In front of a greenscreen on the other side of the space, the visitors movements are tracked in realtime, both sound and image respond their movements. Projected into a world that consists of monsters, UFO´s and other slightly surreal events, visitors can controll animations by by moving in front of the camera. |
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About |
The installation forms a tribute to the young history of Special Effects, that since the existince of film has experienced a fastmoving evolution. Special effect technologies opened up oppertunities explored by filmmakers in order to produce imaginative movies by putting together diffrent filmed scenes; by blending real actor recordings with stopmotion animations and prerecorded material. Filmmakers were able to create characters and filmsets using clay, wood and gardenutilities for their imaginative movieplots. Allthough films using these technologies looked far from realistic, they graduately gained acceptance from the public, and changed the way we looked at film forever. |
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Moviestar is the winning project of Workspace 2009; a contest for artists whose work explores the convergence of moving images and fine arts. |
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| A Brief History of Special Effects Examples |
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| 1946: Many filmproductions started using rerecorded backprojection with actors to simulate moving backgrounds like landscapes, big cities and prairies. |
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| 1955: Early animatonic dinosaur used for Movieproduction |
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| 1980: "The Battle of Hoth" is a famous scene in Star Wars Episode V:"The Empire strikes back". Imperial walkers were shot using stop-motion animation in front of the landscape paintings |
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| 1956: Puppeteer Jim Henson creating puppet machines for this first TV series "Sam and Friends" |
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| 1960: The Timemachine is a 1960 science fiction film based on H. G. Wells's 1895 novel and received an Oscar for time-lapse photographic effects showing the world changing rapidly |
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| 1963: Jason and the Argonauts is a classic example of a movie where realtime and prerecorded stopmotion material is composed together by stopmotion expert Ray Harryhausen. |
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