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| August 01, 2001 | ROBERTSON, BARBARA | COPYRIGHT 2001 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The first CG cast of human actors stars in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Pick a science fiction film, any film. Alien, Star Wars, Men in Black, Fifth Element, you name it. Now, imagine the same film entirely created with 3D computer graphics--not just the visual effects, but also the people, cities, landscapes, spaceships, sun, moon, stars, every little bit. That exactly describes the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within from Columbia Pictures and Square. The film, which was released July 11, puts synthetic human actors into roles that could easily have been played by real humans and places them in completely synthetic sets. Four years in the making, the ...

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