SCENE STEALER
Patrick Kevin Day spoke with effects legend Phil Tippett about creating the werewolf effects for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," (and no, we're not talking about Taylor Lautner's supernatural 16 pack)......
Darkness may be a visual effects artist's best friend, but his biggest enemy isn't bright sunlight -- it's the overcast day. So adding all those CG werewolves to scenes shot in cloudy Vancouver, Canada, was a particular challenge for "New Moon" visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett and his team. "On a sunny day, you get
really nice contrasts, but with flat lighting and a furry thing -- the fur really soaks up the light and everything appears flat," Tippett said. "So to make it appear three-dimensional, we had to goose reality. We emphasized their shadows and used rim lights" to make the wolves stand out from the background. But that's not the only way Tippett and company played with reality. When that wolf checks out Bella, it's not a wolf's eyes, it's Jacob's. "We brought Taylor [Lautner] in and had him haul his eyelids back as far as possible and shot close-ups." They then added those eyes to the giant animated timber wolf used in the scene.
-- Patrick Kevin Day
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
A Word on the CG Wolves and Taylor's Eyes
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
CNN: No Sex Please, We're Vampires
Read the article and watch the video here.
btw - I just love the title of their feature, definitely grabs your attention lol
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Statement from Summit on Breaking Dawn
In response to certain videos which pertain rumors about the production of
Breaking Dawn, Summit Entertainment released this statement. Nothing else is
official yet!“Summit Entertainment looks forward to bringing “Breaking Dawn”
to the big screen but at this point any additional information is premature.”
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Monday, November 23, 2009
New Moon DVD Details
"There will be a commentary track," Weitz revealed, saying that he'll soon head into the recording booth with his three big stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. "It'll just be us riffing off each other in our intimate way," he grinned. "We kind of like each other, so that should be fun."
There will be probably about 20 minutes of deleted material," he explained, promising some meaty footage. "It really is good stuff and a bonus for the fans." Among this bonus footage could be several moments MTV knows was shot but did not make the final "New Moon" cut, including:
» A scene with Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria driving to Forks in a car, snacking on a dead human. It was one of the final moments the actress filmed as the
nomadic vampire.
» A scene with the human characters eating Burger King.
» Another scene with the humans, this time with Justin Chon and Michael Welch expressing jealousy over Edward's car.
» More scenes with the Volturi in Italy.
» An extended cut of the scene where Mike Newton quotes Shakespeare to Bella in the Forks High parking lot; in it, he does a Marlon Brando impersonation.
» Scenes alluding to the ongoing breakup between Newton and Anna Kendrick's Jessica."When I made the film, I wanted it to arrive at a certain kind of flow and cadence," Weitz said of why he had to leave so many scenes on the cutting-room floor but hopes to restore many for the DVD. "[They would have affected] how the movie worked, and they didn't completely fit. But there'll be some groovy stuff in [the DVD]."
LOL...Groovy.
Read the article / watch video here
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Wyck Godfrey Talks About The Making of Bella's Cliff Dive
I think it's safe to say it's one of the most important parts of the book and movie - Bella's Cliff Dive. That one moment set off a whole chain of events and well we all know how that ended :-). Twilight Saga Producer Wyck Godfrey talks about how that scene was brought to life in the movie.
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New Moon Kicks Some Serious Opening Weekend Butt
On Friday alone, "New Moon" managed to earn $72.7 million, surpassing "The
Dark Knight" as the single best opening day in cinema history. A hefty $26.3
million chunk of that Friday change came purely from midnight showings,
propelling "New Moon" past "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" with the highest-grossing midnight opening of all time. "New Moon" also debuted with the biggest November opening ever and the third-best opening weekend of all time, taking that distinction away from "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."
To put the success of "New Moon" in perspective, the first "Twilight"
film — which opened almost a year ago to the day — earned only $69.6 million in
its debut weekend, demonstrating just how widespread the "Twilight" craze has
become in only 12 months.Read the article here.
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TwilightMoms & Amanda in USA Today
Check out the article here."Women really appreciate that because they can read them with their daughters or
younger sisters and not be embarrassed," says Amanda Belcher, 27, a public-relations executive outside Scranton, Pa., who helps run TwilightMoms.com, which has 34,000 members 21 or older.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
New Moon Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes
Fandango
IMDb
Yahoo! Movies
Moviefone
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OMG - New Moon is Perfection!
More tomorrow.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Previews of Rob on Ellen and Taylor, Rob & Kristen on Jimmy Kimmel
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Robert Pattinson on The Today Show
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Kristen Stewart on Jimmy Fallon
Kristen Stewart appeared on Jimm Fallon last night. (I haven't had time to watch these yet)
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Robert Pattinson ROCKS on Letterman
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Where the New Moon Stars will be Today
I will post videos when they are available.
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