視效公會一封回應少年pi媒體影評的公開信(哇) - 李安

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The following is an open letter from the Visual Effects Society:
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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)》之銘言：
: ※ [本文轉錄自 movie 看板 #1Gl4t8jt ]
: 作者: BrokeBackM (李安 迷) 看板: movie
: 標題: [特訊] 視效公會一封回應少年pi媒體影評的公開信(哇)
: 時間: Mon Dec 3 14:59:16 2012
: 全球視覺特效公會VES幫李安的少年pi視覺特效公開背書?
: 或只是借力使力，想幫辛苦在比例上卻又不夠受重視的幕後
: 人員們，找到一個很好的典範(少年pi)，趁此良機適時發聲?
: 回應洛杉磯時報絕讚大好評(Glowing Review)的公開信
: (這公開信會對少年pi拿特效獎是很大很大的正面影響
: 像去年的"雨果"，在視效公會拿的獎比呼聲最高的"猩球崛球"多，
: 在奧斯卡果然就爆黑馬，"雨果"不知名的德國特效公司，打敗全球知
: 名的WETA，跌破眼鏡)
: 乖乖地隆叮董，成員遍及全球視覺特效領域的 視覺效果社群/公會，
: 罕見地針對一部電影的視覺效果，向媒體與大眾寫了一封公開信
: 公開信發文者：
: Eric Roth, Executive Director, Visual Effects Society
: Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair, Visual Effects Society
: 內容是針對 洛杉磯時報 日前給予 少年pi的奇幻漂流 絕贊大好評
: ，不僅讚李安的電影，更讚李安透過3D 科技和 CG電腦動畫的方式
: ，把文本故事像吃了大力金剛丸一樣，成功地影像化到令人信服的
: 境界，甚至可能看電影時聽到老虎叫聲，也真的以為有老虎跑出來，
: 嚇到跳起來.....
: 但長久以來，種種對(特效比例占頗重的)電影與電影視覺的讚美，
: 不外乎是導演或攝影師，但卻極少有媒體願意給幕後最大的視覺特
: 效功臣，平等的重視和介紹，甚至有時還帶點 "貶低這工業在藝
: 術上的價值" (這句我自己加的想法)
: 就像臥虎藏龍，媒體都會提到武術指導　"袁和平"
: 但很少有媒體會提到 變形金剛系列票房大成功幕後最大功臣是
: 視效總監 史考特法拉 史考特法拉 史考特法拉 史考特法拉
: 小弟長以來，都一直在強調，目前許多電影，使用特效才能
: 把故事拍出來的比例超重，除了討論明星/導演/現場技術人員
: ，應該公平地對視覺特效產業多點尊敬和重視，所我都會強調
: "這片的特效由哪幾家公司合作，主要視覺總監是誰"
: (沒錯，我相信變形金剛形會大賣，大家是想看變形金剛不是看導演)
: 簡單來說:
: 沒有成熟的CG特效，李安就拍不出他口中最難拍的，不可能影像化的電影
: 但大眾和媒體對這些付出創意(FX製作是要有創意思考找方法的)和貢獻的
: 視覺特效人員，普遍來說卻不夠尊敬和重視! 明星或導演可以拿到高報酬
: 或分紅，甚至是最多的重視，但時至今日，像復仇者聯盟全球大賣15億美金
: 以上，大家花電影票錢，進去看爽爽時，或像少年pi，進去看心靈震盪時，
: 有多少人知道他們背後的視效總監是誰，是哪幾家公司的人員，合作出來的?
: 台灣媒體會提一下是因為，李安把R&H帶來高雄了，若不是李安，若不是高雄
: 分公司，媒體會提及R&H嗎?
: 公開信最後一句話說的棒及了，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."
: 公開信全文連結(ptt縮網址):
: http://ppt.cc/7pKR

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