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New-age entertainment.(Digital Sets)(Brief article)

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Filmmakers--no matter if they are from small, independent studios or from the largest facilities, or somewhere in between--are discovering the advantages of using digital sets. Creating CG backgrounds are saving untold dollars in production costs, since filmmakers, crew, and talent no longer have to travel to exotic locales to have such imagery in the background of their production. Nor do they have to rent endless hours of time on an expensive sound stage. Instead, rich, imaginative 3D imagery is accomplishing the same goals or, in many instances, surpassing them.

The implementation of CG sets is hardly new. However, recent uses--in particular, for the film 300, which employs a unique graphics style thanks to the all-CG backgrounds--has placed the technology in the spotlight.

In May, a small independent studio, Stage 3 Media in Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

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