Painting by numbers

Series: Horizon

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1981

Creator: Films inc.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A comprehensive documentary on computer graphics and the technology which enables computers to translate numbers into images which human eyes and brains can readily understand. Besides their proliferation in video arcade games, computer graphics are shown being successfully utilized in the areas of architecture, animation, pilot training and medicine as well as in the imaginative fantasies of feature-film producers. , Shows the processes of digital computer enhancement through subtraction, addition and manipulation of elements. Uses examples from the production of Hearts and Souls, a Kodak commercial shot in an Argentinean sports arena, and the David Byrne music video She's Mad to demonstrate the subtlety and convincing quality of these processes. Interviews animators, visual effects supervisors, movie directors, and executives of Pacific Digital Images, who discuss how digital enhancement enabled them to achieve the goals of each project. Concludes that these processes produce better entertainment because of the flexibility and improvisation that they permit and also the decreased risk to the actors' safety.

Complete Record: A comprehensive documentary on computer graphics and the technology which enables computers to translate numbers into images which human eyes and brains can readily understand. Besides their proliferation in video arcade games, computer graphics are shown being successfully utilized in the areas of architecture, animation, pilot training and medicine as well as in the imaginative fantasies of feature-film producers. , Shows the processes of digital computer enhancement through subtraction, addition and manipulation of elements. Uses examples from the production of Hearts and Souls, a Kodak commercial shot in an Argentinean sports arena, and the David Byrne music video She's Mad to demonstrate the subtlety and convincing quality of these processes. Interviews animators, visual effects supervisors, movie directors, and executives of Pacific Digital Images, who discuss how digital enhancement enabled them to achieve the goals of each project. Concludes that these processes produce better entertainment because of the flexibility and improvisation that they permit and also the decreased risk to the actors' safety.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.