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andyfilms1 4 hours ago  [ - ]

With a few notable exceptions (James Cameron) the film industry is largely unconcerned with "possibility." I think this is often why there is such a big misunderstanding from tech folks about how movies are made, since tech is very feature and tool driven whereas filmmaking is very much process-driven.

The Odyssey was shot on IMAX cameras half the size of a car that weighed 400lbs. It's easy to call that out as being ridiculous, surely a much smaller camera system could have achieved 99% the same results, etc. but that totally misses the point. Nolan could have shot it on anything he wanted, and he chose the less convenient way, because that is his process. If he was forced to use a more reasonable camera, it would not have been a Christopher Nolan film.

Sure, I'm down with that mix of generation + animation + mocap workflow. But at some point, people will going to look around at all the equipment, the people in mocap suits, the thousands of hours of generation and the millions of dollars of compute, and just wonder...wouldn't it be easier to just film someone with a real camera?

adolph 12 minutes ago  [ - ]

> Nolan could have shot it on anything he wanted, and he chose the less convenient way, because that is his process.

Kinda. There are also interesting technical reasons. From my lay person understanding:

  1. IMAX film is physically larger and creates a higher quality image
  2. Because of the size and machine noise close up dialog is normally redubbed.
  3. Nolan (and team?) came up with a method of sealing off the cameras' noise that made them even larger, so they had a system of mirrors that allowed the actors to interact in a more natural way and allowed close in capture by IMAX with integrated sound.
The system of mirrors reminds me of Errol Morris' Interrotron which allowed him to film an interviewee's face directly from the perspective of the interviewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrotron

robocat 2 hours ago  [ - ]

> half the size of a car that weighed 400lbs

Link please - saw nothing like that from a quick search

andyfilms1 2 hours ago  [ - ]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cinematography/comments/1p2exyx/che...

iusewindows an hour ago  [ - ]

Nolan is irrelevant. He is the last of a dying breed. Once him and his ilk are gone, studios will go 100% into AI slop, Oscars be damned. No company is funneling 200 million into risky Oscar bait when they can make one hour Tiktok equivalents and get higher ROI. Movie theaters as a whole might go the Blockbuster route in a decade or two. The younger generations are not supporting the film industry with their eyeballs or dollars.

Someone else already replied to you politely explaining this from another angle, but for some reason you not to engage with him.