全文 http://www.awn.com/articles/visual-effects/ves-open-letter-visual-effects-catche s-true-tiger-by-the-tail The following is an open letter from the Visual Effects Society: -- Eric Roth, Executive Director, Visual Effects Society Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair, Visual Effects Society Recently, The Los Angeles Times critic Betsy Sharkey gave a glowing review to the new movie Life of Pi, (“‘Pi’ Equals Mastery,” The Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2012). She praised Director Ang Lee’s use of 3-D and feels the movie is an instant classic. She goes on to say that, “Indeed, Lee has enhanced the novel's power, employing 3-D and CGI technology with such originality that there are moments when the ocean seems to float around you. And when a certain tiger roars, you may well jump.” “The film serves up cutting-edge special effects, developed over the course of 10 years, and is already generating awards buzz for the Oscar-winning director,” according to The Huffington Post. Ang Lee waited ten years for visual effects technology to be able to deliver a believable world and co-stars. It could be said that the film would never have been made without them. As the only organization that represents the visual effects industry, we at the Visual Effects Society (VES) couldn’t agree more. Director Ang Lee not only employed truly artistic and compelling visual effects work, he did so in order to successfully tell a deeply moving story. All this said, while printed praise has been heaped on Lee and director of photography Claudio Miranda – as well as production designer David Gropman – there has been no mention of visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer; Rhythm and Hues, the company that created the bulk of the visual effects; Moving Pictures Company, Lola, Look FX, BUF, Crazy Horse Effects or the hundreds of visual effects artists who created the tiger as well as the entire world at sea – consisting of flying fish, a breaching whale and a floating island populated with thousands of meerkats. Not to mention the overwhelmingly majestic sunsets – all of which were filmed in a water tank surrounded by blue screens and not on an actual ocean. Too often, visual effects artists are overlooked in the “take a bow” section of reviews, and we find that puzzling; first, because of the incredibly sophisticated skill that visual effects work requires and – second – because they have now become a key driver of the box office. Consider the stars of the ‘Transformer’ movies, the ‘Harry Potter’ movies, Avatar, The Avengers and so on – it was the visual effects. To put an exclamation point on this, 46 of the 50 top worldwide box office films of all time are visual effects driven. ※ 引述《BrokeBackM (李安 迷)》之铭言： : ※ [本文转录自 movie 看板 #1Gl4t8jt ] : 作者: BrokeBackM (李安 迷) 看板: movie : 标题: [特讯] 视效公会一封回应少年pi媒体影评的公开信(哇) : 时间: Mon Dec 3 14:59:16 2012 : 全球视觉特效公会VES帮李安的少年pi视觉特效公开背书? : 或只是借力使力，想帮辛苦在比例上却又不够受重视的幕後 : 人员们，找到一个很好的典范(少年pi)，趁此良机适时发声? : 回应洛杉矶时报绝赞大好评(Glowing Review)的公开信 : (这公开信会对少年pi拿特效奖是很大很大的正面影响 : 像去年的"雨果"，在视效公会拿的奖比呼声最高的"猩球崛球"多， : 在奥斯卡果然就爆黑马，"雨果"不知名的德国特效公司，打败全球知 : 名的WETA，跌破眼镜) : 乖乖地隆叮董，成员遍及全球视觉特效领域的 视觉效果社群/公会， : 罕见地针对一部电影的视觉效果，向媒体与大众写了一封公开信 : 公开信发文者： : Eric Roth, Executive Director, Visual Effects Society : Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair, Visual Effects Society : 内容是针对 洛杉矶时报 日前给予 少年pi的奇幻漂流 绝赞大好评 : ，不仅赞李安的电影，更赞李安透过3D 科技和 CG电脑动画的方式 : ，把文本故事像吃了大力金刚丸一样，成功地影像化到令人信服的 : 境界，甚至可能看电影时听到老虎叫声，也真的以为有老虎跑出来， : 吓到跳起来..... : 但长久以来，种种对(特效比例占颇重的)电影与电影视觉的赞美， : 不外乎是导演或摄影师，但却极少有媒体愿意给幕後最大的视觉特 : 效功臣，平等的重视和介绍，甚至有时还带点 "贬低这工业在艺 : 术上的价值" (这句我自己加的想法) : 就像卧虎藏龙，媒体都会提到武术指导　"袁和平" : 但很少有媒体会提到 变形金刚系列票房大成功幕後最大功臣是 : 视效总监 史考特法拉 史考特法拉 史考特法拉 史考特法拉 : 小弟长以来，都一直在强调，目前许多电影，使用特效才能 : 把故事拍出来的比例超重，除了讨论明星/导演/现场技术人员 : ，应该公平地对视觉特效产业多点尊敬和重视，所我都会强调 : "这片的特效由哪几家公司合作，主要视觉总监是谁" : (没错，我相信变形金刚形会大卖，大家是想看变形金刚不是看导演) : 简单来说: : 没有成熟的CG特效，李安就拍不出他口中最难拍的，不可能影像化的电影 : 但大众和媒体对这些付出创意(FX制作是要有创意思考找方法的)和贡献的 : 视觉特效人员，普遍来说却不够尊敬和重视! 明星或导演可以拿到高报酬 : 或分红，甚至是最多的重视，但时至今日，像复仇者联盟全球大卖15亿美金 : 以上，大家花电影票钱，进去看爽爽时，或像少年pi，进去看心灵震荡时， : 有多少人知道他们背後的视效总监是谁，是哪几家公司的人员，合作出来的? : 台湾媒体会提一下是因为，李安把R&H带来高雄了，若不是李安，若不是高雄 : 分公司，媒体会提及R&H吗? : 公开信最後一句话说的棒及了，我的同意己多到不能再更多了 : "For everyone watching the tiger Richard Parker and Pi Patel : remember this: without the phenomenal visual effects artists : who spent months painstakingly creating every frame, : Richard Parker, the meerkats, fish, whales, storms, ships and : sky would never have come to life. : And that would not be worth either the $14 admision price, or : the two hours you’ve spent in the theater." : 公开信全文连结(ptt缩网址): : http://ppt.cc/7pKR -- 后SNSDKimTaeYeonKaraHanSeungYeonSecretJunHyoSeong妃SISTARHyoLyn LeeJunghyun4Min uteJeonJiyoonIUYiJiEunSISTARYoonBoRa4MinuteKimHyunAh2NE1LeeChaerin嫔B.E.G.NarSh aSNSDLimYoonAB.E.G.SonGaInSecretSongJiEun2NE1SandaraParkSecretHanSunHwaSNSDTiff anyT-araHamEunJungSNSDChoiSooYoungT-araHyoMin㊣后SNSD太妍Kara昇延Secret孝盛妃SI STAR孝琳 贞贤4Minute祉润IU知恩SISTAR宝拉4Minute泫雅2NE1彩琳嫔B.E.G.孝珍SNSD润娥 B.E.G.佳仁Secret智恩2NE1朵拉Secret善花SNSD帕妮T-ara恩静SNSD秀英T-ara孝敏newline --

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