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  • Apple Acquires Visual Effects Firm That Helped Create Star Wars

    Apple Acquires Visual Effects Firm That Helped Create Star Wars

    Apple has confirmed rumours about acquiring Faceshift – a Zurich-based visual effects firm that played a key role in making Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The firm specializes in real time, markerless motion capture which helps to capture realistic and emotional facial expressions in video games and film.

    Faceshift

    However, as reports suggest, Faceshift is not the only technology startup that Apple has recently acquired. Their list consists of augmented reality firm Mataio, facial recognition firm Polar Rose and 3D scanning house PrimeSense.

    Faceshift

    However, Apple has not given anybody a specific reason as to these acquirements and have only stated that –

    “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”

    Oh well, whatever it is, let us just hope Star Wars and Apple fans will have something in store for them.

  • Watch: How a Realistic Dinosaur Was Created For ‘Jurassic World’

    Watch: How a Realistic Dinosaur Was Created For ‘Jurassic World’

    Jurassic Park is considered a cinematic milestone due to the ground-breaking mix of CGI and animatronics used to bring dinosaurs to life. Jurassic World proudly carries on the tradition of mixing CGI and practical visual effects to bring the park, which took 65 million years in making, to life. Although Jurassic World employs more CGI than its predecessor, the film also utilised some fine animatronics to create a closer look at the dinosaurs.

    CGI stands for computer-generated imagery, using computers to add images in movies or TV shows.

    A video released by Legacy Effects explains how a believable, life-like Apatosaurus was created for the movie. The scene in question is when Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard encounter a dying Apatosaurus. What is more impressive is that the emotions expressed by Apatosaurus in the film were achieved through the use of mechanics, not CGI.

    Jurassic World, the latest installment in the Jurassic Park series, has already earned more than a billion dollars at the box-office and has become the most popular entry after the first Jurassic Park film.

    Watch the video below to see how Legacy Effects created a life-like Apatosaurus.

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