IMD Forum for 2/21/07: Eric Hanson
Speaker: Eric Hanson, Visura Imaging & USC Hench DADA
Time: Wednesday, February 21, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)
Title: Digital Fiction: New Worlds in Film Environments
This lecture will review the scope and range of film backgrounds and environments, from historic precedence to contemporary digital techniques. Speaker Eric Hanson has a long experience of creating CGI backgrounds for prominent feature films, and will showcase shot breakdowns of films such as The Fifth Element, Cast Away, and The Day After Tomorrow. The lecture will end on the topic of creating affordable environments using high resolution panoramic images, and will discuss recent gigapixel techniques Eric has developed.
Eric's Bio is here.
and websites describing his work here:
http://www.visuraimaging.com
http://www.xrez.com