IMAGINA (The CGM Project)

[Gorkab]

The Computer Graphics in Movies Project is a project who's goal is to make a documentary on CG from 1973 to 1993.

This documentary would length 120 minutes but it's subject to increase. It will be encoded in MPEG-4 H.263 in the resolution of 704x384 with MP3 sound at 192 Kbps.

Several audios will be available :

- Original audios of the movies in original version subbed with informations about them (MP3 @ 192 Kbps)
- An audio commentary of the team on the documentary and the project itself (MP3 @ 128 Kbps)

Here is an excel file which shows the advancement of the project :

Tableau récapitulatif

There's 10 people in this project :

- Krystatos : Encoding & Assembler, Checker, Fansubber, Off Voice
- Gorkab : Infographist, Encoder, Artistic Director, Project's Creator, Cinema's Credits Finder, Cinema's Credits Supplier, Off Voice
- Look That : Infographist, Cinema's Credits Supplier
- Roughneck : Coach, Element of Social Cohesion, Sweeping
- Lilice : Checker
- Zaknafein : Cinema's Credits Supplier
- Tidus San : Cinema's Credits Supplier
- Flo : Musician, Element of Social Cohesion
- Mr Bob : Cinema's Credits Supplier, Encoder
- Durendal : Cinema's Credits Supplier, Encoder

For the moment, 60 movies scenes have been encoded on 61 :


Link to the Futureworld CG Scene






























If some of you are wondering why a social element can be ****ing doing here, here is a little response in french :







I'd like to know what you think about my project so please post ^^

[thunderhawk]

Wow Gorkab!

Great project :!: Really, all great movies... However, you forgot many (like Ben Hur for example :| )
But its really a great project, so ambicious!

I can't wait so see your documentairy! Really

[Gorkab]

Originally Posted by thunderhawk

Wow Gorkab!

Great project :!: Really, all great movies... However, you forgot many (like Ben Hur for example :| )
But its really a great project, so ambicious!

I can't wait so see your documentairy! Really

I forgot many ? Ben Hur has CGI ??? :shock: Thank you for your message ! There's so many people like you who are waiting for my documentary that I cannot count them all !

PS : I don't know each movie with CGI in this period so if you want to help find more, then... help me :lol: (But where the hell is there GCI in Ben Hur ???)

[thunderhawk]

Well, I remember the people in the tribunes, in the scene with the circus to be computer simulated. One of the first computer simulated scenes in movie history by the way :P

[Gorkab]

Originally Posted by thunderhawk

Well, I remember the people in the tribunes, in the scene with the circus to be computer simulated. One of the first computer simulated scenes in movie history by the way :P

This movie is 1960 !!! Don't you imagine CGI peoples ??? Look at the picture of the movies already encoded !! It can't be CGI, not at that date, sorry.

[thunderhawk]

lol, and yet they are simulated

and yes I know what you mean. Here the computer graphics are extremely good... however, at that time first manipulations were done

[Gorkab]

Originally Posted by thunderhawk

lol, and yet they are simulated

and yes I know what you mean. Here the computer graphics are extremely good... however, at that time first manipulations were done

Oh yeah ? Sorry I cannot believe you because I don't possess the movie but if you can verify (bonuses, credits of the movies, pictures of the scene...)

[thunderhawk]

Mmm yeah sorry... I confused it with something else... Found it a bit strange myself too...

Ben Hur was one of the first movies where one created things that didn't existed in the picture. The simulation was done with other techniques, it weren't computer graphics as suspected, sorry... ops:

[Gorkab]

Originally Posted by thunderhawk

Mmm yeah sorry... I confused it with something else... Found it a bit strange myself too...

Ben Hur was one of the first movies where one created things that didn't existed in the picture. The simulation was done with other techniques, it weren't computer graphics as suspected, sorry... ops:

Thanks for helping, here is my greatest source :

http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/lesson14.html

[Gorkab]

3 new movies added ! :shock:

- Oliver & Compagny
- The Little Mermaid
- Free Willy

The project has now 53 movies ! :?

I now introduce the "movies informations" part with huge informations about 15 films by now.

The new excel file is already online :

Tableau Récapitulatif de l'Avancement du Projet

The "Gathering" part is no longer at 50 %... But not for a long time

[Gorkab]

Three New scenes encoded :

- Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope
- Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
- Die Hard II : Die Harder




If anyone is wondering what CGI is in Die Hard II, you should know that it is the first digital add in cinema's history

The project is now counting 41 scenes encoded on 56

[Gorkab]

Thanks to Durendal (who also joint the project), there's a new encoded scene :

- Akira (1988)



The project is now counting 42 scenes encoded on 56 ! And 10 members by the way ! 8)

A new Gif with Roughneck also :

[Gorkab]

A new one !

- Dune (1984)



This makes 43 scenes encoded on 56 ! 8)

[Alex Pallas]

good old Dune

[Gorkab]

Originally Posted by Alex Pallas

good old Dune

Yes ! This is the new mastered edition also !

[Gorkab]

Two new encoded scenes !

- The Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Hocus Pocus (1993)



The project is now counting 45 scenes encoded on 56 and will be the object of a presentation in an amphi of the St Quentin en Yvelines university the 13 December with Krystatos and I as members of the CGM Project.

[Gorkab]

Two new scenes !

- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
- Aladdin (1992)



The project is now counting 47 scenes encoded on 53. Three scenes have been wiped out because they didn't contained CGI.

- Howard, the Duck (1986)
- Flight of the Intruder (1991)
- Honey, I Blew Up The Baby (1992)

For the six latests scenes, four will come from DVDs :

- Oliver & Company (1988)
- The Rescuers Down Under (1991)
- Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Demolition Man (1993)

And the two others will be XviD et DivX sources :

- Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)

EDIT : 32st week of the project !

[thunderhawk]

Congratulations

However, I still dont know what the roughneck guy is doing there

[Gorkab]

Originally Posted by thunderhawk

Congratulations

However, I still dont know what the roughneck guy is doing there

Roughneck is kind of our buffon

Thanks a lot for your support Thunder, my presentation of the project is now one month forward ! Still six scenes remaining tough

[Gorkab]

Two New films added...

- Labyrinth (1986)
- In The Line Of Fire (1993)

Those two movies are now on downloading and both has AC3 sound, they are also in XviD and DivX.

So for the moment, despite my Premiere & After Effects problems for the black lines, there is 48 scenes encoded on 55 !

The last encoded scene is the horrible morphing made for Ghostbusters 2 (1989) :