Blog Break
I went to see the new Harry Potter movie with one of my pals yesterday. I don't have much standard of comparison for the movie, so I have no business commenting really. I enjoyed it though. I've only read the first book, and this is the first on-screen version I've seen. It just carries along with what I was saying in the last post about the SFX they can do these days. Believe it or not, there was a time when computers couldn't do anything artistic. I think the first revelation came along for me when the original set of Photoshop filters came out. I could take any photo, and filter it and make it look just like a painting of some kind, even on a textured surface. The results looked exactly like the illustrations that were such a big deal at Art Center just a few years before. Those were painstakingly executed by some dude (or dudette), and now I could do a simulation in seconds. It simply proved to me that anything could be reduced to numbers, or binary code or whatever it is that does it. Now I'm watching new generations come up with ever-more complex and imaginative applications. Good for them.