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Effects of global warming.(USER FOCUS: ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS)("Too Hot Not to Handle", documentary television program of Home Box Office Inc.)
When executive producer and environmental activist Laurie David teamed with HBO and Lovett Productions on a documentary showing the devastating effects of global warming, they needed to illustrate their point with CGI that blended seamlessly into the live action for a realistic, rather than exaggerated, look.
The documentary, titled Too Hot Not to Handle: A Global Warming Premier, featured in-depth descriptive discussions with some of the nation's top scientists and explored the immediate planetary effects of global warming; it also focused on positive actions by businesses, local governments, and individuals to counter the growing threat.
To help visually depict the complexities of global warming, Vincent MacTiernan, animator and founder of Extreme Digital Productions, created climatic and atmospheric visual effects using Wondertouch's ParticleIllusion software, which ran alongside Adobe's After Effects and NewTek's LightWave in his studio's pipeline. The majority of the effects sequences involved the Earth spinning, with plumes of greenhouse gas rising from the surface. It also featured digital smog, water evaporation, air pollution, and more.
The fact that MacTiernan was awarded this project occurred by happenstance. He had been visiting a facility for which he often does work when he encountered the HBO production staff as they were reviewing graphic shots for the documentary. When it appeared that the elements were not quite what the group had in mind, MacTiernan offered to provide samples of atmospheric effects.
"Because of the immediacy required to turn around the samples, using a 3D particle program was out of the question," MacTiernan says. ...
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