As filming Titanic (44 photos) Bashny.Net

At the beginning of 1996, on the coast of Rosarito Beach, located in the state of Baja California (Mexico), began construction of a new giant pavilion studio 20th Century Fox, which had to remove most of the scenes for the film. There, with the help of five tons of dynamite, was established pool of four million liters of displacement, which in the future will be to "float" the largest model in the history of cinema.





Production designer Peter Lamont paintings (Peter Lamont), managed to get in the shipbuilding company Harland & Wolff copies of drawings of the Titanic. Using them, as well as diary of Thomas Andrews (Thomas Andrews), chief designer of the ship, builders, work began on the construction of an almost complete copy of the Titanic. The final model is created by the ship reaches 231 m in length, while the real ship was only 34 meters long. It was on board this "ship" were made shooting the actors, the replaced later in the film on digital doubles. "Thanks to the filming, our models of ships of special effects decreased by almost a thousand episodes," - says producer Jon Landau picture (Jon Landau).

According to Rob Legato, one of the reasons for the special effects in "Titanic" look so believable is the continuous improvement of software and hardware to control the position of cameras and "motion capture».

"We used the system" motion capture "for the filming of the movie as the characters move, stand, sit," - he recalls. "Then we scan the tape to the computer, and laid our actors on their computer models».

During the filming of the actors were dressed in suits, hung with sensors for the "motion capture". Their actions seemed arbitrary, although they were told in advance what to do. People shaking hands and introduce themselves to others. They drank tea, waving their friends and perform other movements that seem natural and appropriate in a given place and a given time. In the depths of Digital Domain was created a library of digitized movements, which was available to each animator studio.



"The person responsible for the process of filming on" motion capture ", said:" Let the three people stand there and will shake each other's hands. Then let the other pass trio behind these. " "Basically, the whole process looks like a normal shooting actors in a given scene. Then our artists, with the help of computers "cut out" of the face and clothes of these actors and imposed it on the digital doubles. We also used data from the shooting to emulate natural light. When digital actors go on deck, they come in both shaded and in the contrary, the lighter areas, thereby achieved greater compliance with these scenes shot by Russ (Russell Carpenter (Russell Carpenter) the operator of the film - approx. Aut .) & quot ;.

During the filming of scenes with the use of technology "motion capture", were used forty actors services. By simply copying the three-dimensional models, in scenes shipwreck, took the simultaneous participation of 1,000 or more people. According to Rob Legato, "Jim could hire another thousand people, but they would have to carry, feed, clothe, and hire additional masters for applying makeup. My rule during filming was simple: if something can be recorded using a standard film camera, we're shooting on film. If a scene or an object it can not be removed, we use a computer. For scenes in which the passengers of the Titanic fall from a great height into the water, we shot real splashes from falling ordinary object thrown into the ocean. Instead of the expected three weeks out to simulate the dynamics of water splash with a computer, we left an hour ».



Continuing the theme of the process of shooting people fall in the water, Legato notes that after the film footage was filmed been scanned and transferred to a computer animators Digital Domain «extended» jumping stunt with a 6-meter-high and 21-meter. At the same time, has been used a computer simulated water, allow us to clash with it more dramatic and natural. Supervisor explains that even the best stuntmen will be compressed directly before falling into the water.

The main instrument of Digital Domain during the creation of the digital ocean water to the "Titanic" was the software created by Arete by analyzing the results of satellite imagery sailing ships. According to Legato, developers have studied the dynamics of waves that can be left floating vessel, the effect of wind speed on the wave, the amount of light absorbed and reflected by water. Digital Domain has improved the program by adding to it the ability to remove the virtual camera over long distances, as well as the creation of a variety of trajectories of her flight. In addition, have been added and other parameters: a choice of heights, angles shooting sized lenses, the reflection of the sky in the water, as well as objects on or in the water surface, reflecting sunlight.



In addition to three-dimensional passengers and water to create special effects for the film were necessary miniature model of the Titanic museum detailing, which was built a few pieces. Doing this, as previously mentioned, Digital Domain (DD) and Donald Pennington Inc (DPI).



Studios were created: 7, 5th (scale 1:35, DD), 13th (scale 1:20, DD) and 18th (scale 1:14, 5, DPI) model as well as the 44th (scale 1: 6, DPI) miniatures, which in the process of making the film to break in half (DPI), 7, 5th bow (DD), the 7th and the 15th fodder (DPI) of the ship. Both studios have also collaborated in the construction of full-size copies of the submarine "Mir».

Besides them, the creation of models involved another studio, Vision Crew, Produce thumbnails Digital Domain detailed part of the ship, such as lifeboats, cranes, propellers, as well as about 2,000 windows! On the creation of interiors Titanic separately from Digital Domain and Donald Pennington worked and other studios.



"Just one glass dome crowning the top deck of the ship, took from the budget of" Titanic "500 thousand dollars!»