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A digital revolution: in a novel approach, crews create many of Vendetta's effects in DI.(Film)
The Wachowski brothers' film noir-styled "kung-fu meets sci-fi" movie, The Matrix, won a visual effects Oscar in 2000 for, among other effects, the stylish "bullet-time" shots in which Keanu Reeves's actions happened in extremely slow motion while the camera swung around him. Since then, so many films--from Charlie's Angels to Shrek--have imitated and parodied the bullet-time shots that the effect has become a cliche.
But, what happened behind the slo-mo action arguably had a more widespread and lasting impact on visual effects. To create digital reproductions of the locations surrounding the action, the Matrix crew used photogrammetric modeling with projected ...
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