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  • RANGO Redefines How Animated Films Are Made

    // Gradly // blog, Movies, News 1 Response

    Rango

    This is how animated movies are made: The writers and artists break a story, they storyboard it, they write it, they bring in the actors. The actors stand alone in booths and record dialog. All by themselves. They’ll be video taped so the animators can get a look at their facial expressions. Then the writers and animators redo the entire story and bring the actors back to stand around in booths some more.

    That is not how Gore Verbinski did it on Rango, if the embedded featurette is to be believed. And I say ‘if’ because I can’t think of another modern animated film that was made this way – Verbinski had the actors work together and act out the scenes on a big stage. There must have been a secondary voice capture process, I assume. Was the playful acting thing something they did at the start, while storyboarding the film, or was this how it was all done, in lieu of motion capture?

    Also, what accent does Johnny Depp have these days?

  • Gulliver’s Travels to be One Giant Apple Ad

    // Gradly // Apple, blog, Movies, News 2 Responses

    Gulliver’s Travels

    The upcoming Jack Black comedy, Gulliver’s Travels, which opens Christmas Day, will be one giant Apple ad.

    When Gulliver travels to Lilliput, he brings his iPhone, which when used by the Lilliputians appears gigantic.

    The movie has multiple MacBooks and other Apple products, and Apple logos galore.

    Apple is easily the most successful company ever in getting its products into movies and TV shows. Some 41% of the movies that hit number-one at the box office featured Apple products.

    Part of the reason for this success is that Hollywood is Apple-obsessed. Another is that Apple works at it. The company proudly boasts that it never pays for product placement. But it’s likely that there is some string pulling, proactive offers of devices to use and other actions that are kept secret by the company.

    Whatever Apple is doing, it’s working.

    [via: cultofmac]

  • How to take Stunning Interior & Engine Shots in Gran Turismo 5

    // Gradly // blog, Consoles, Games, PS3 3 Responses

    Gran Turismo 5

    – This ONLY works in PHOTO TRAVEL w/ a Premium Car.

    – Specifically in only two locations:

    1. Step#1 – In Luzern Chapel Bridge you MUST place your car in location # 2 & #4, #2 is adjacent to the Chapel by the water.
    2. Step#2 – Position your car with the desired interior side you wish to shoot from, keep in mind you do not have alot of free movement with the camera in this location.
    3. Step#3 – Walk as close to the car as you can, either if it’s the rear window, driver side window, passenger side window. etc.
    4. Step#4 – Set your F value all the way up so there is no blur effect
    5. Step#5 – Simply level your camera to the height of the window, and ZOOM IN.

    That is all! I have yet to hear anyone do it, you simply glitch through the glass. And this only works in this location, alot of my weird angles are because you can glitch through the whole car itself. So a lot of times you get good angles.

    Gran Turismo 5

    Gran Turismo 5

    Gran Turismo 5

    Gran Turismo 5

    [via: gtplanet]

  • Dan Brown writing the script for the upcoming THE LOST SYMBOL Movie

    // Gradly // blog, Conspiracies, Movies, News 3 Responses

    The Lost Symbol

    Mega-selling mystery author Dan Brown has taken over writing duties on the film adaptation of The Lost Symbol.

    Columbia Pictures is developing the film version of Brown’s most recent novel, which was published in 2009 and sold more than a million copies in its first day on shelves. In it, Brown’s regular protagonist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, gets mixed up with the Freemasons in Washington, D.C.

    The 2006 adaptation of The Da Vinci Code and the 2009 version of Angels & Demons grossed $1.24 billion at the worldwide box office for Sony. But this is the first time Brown has taken on screenwriting duties. Akiva Goldsman penned Da Vinci and co-wrote Demons with David Koepp.

    Oscar-nominated Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight first took a run at the Symbol screenplay. Although Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment is once again producing, Howard, who directed the first two Brown adaptations, has not committed to directing Symbol. Nor has star Tom Hanks officially come on board to reprise Langdon.

    Regardless, given the sure-thing built-in audience, Sony is sure to have Symbol in theaters sooner rather than later. With Men in Black III and the Spider-Man reboot already set for summer 2012, here’s betting that Brown’s latest is on screens the following summer.

    [via: THR]