Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)

Click Here to read a brief descriptions of the type of special effects graphics we will be covering, and also enjoy the video to the right, which practically sums up it's history. This time we will take a look into what Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) are and the process of creating this type of special effect. What can be as something a little obvious, is that the three-dimensional images will be created by computer compositions software. The process is one similar to using green or blue screens to incorporate what is real with what is not. Although it can be compared to that, it is most definitely not the same since CGI graphics are represented and translated through the computer screen. What distinguishes this effects over others is precisely that a scene for a film, game, short, etc., are cut and paste of bits and pieces until the creation of the panorama.  This process can actually be done with out the need of actors, sets, miniatures, etc., and still be possible of making beautiful movement and special effect images.

Some perks and advantages that over time have been added in the graphics to facilitate the flows and movements, making them more real to the eye. Big corporations and companies such as Xsens and Digital District make and construct their projects and work around CGI technologies. They do provide some of the best special effects that look so real you would not even believe it. They offer a variety of software that deal with these types of special effects and from different kind of styles. This next video to the right is a short film that Digital District made for a Cartier jewelry commercial, which is stunning and we cannot even notice which are the real images and which are the computer generated images. I promise this short film will astonish and surprise you, making you to never stop watching it.

Holographic, Three-Dimensional and Virtual Projections

         How real the holograms seem? Are they considered as part of the virtual reality world? Can holograms and 3 Dimensional objects be considered as the same? Many people think that virtual reality, three-dimensions and holograms are the same thing. Truth is that they may be trying to reach out for the same purpose, but the method is different. Technological features, which make three-dimensional world possible, are progressing constantly. They will be at a point where critics foresee it even without the need of glasses. If you feel outside of the alley and definitions of what these advances are, then the FW: Thinking video at the beginning is where you will find about prognostics for the future equipment and visible perceptions. What is exactly is a holographic projection? Find out and then give you can have your own opinion.

Virtual reality is a created image sent through the particular equipment, which projects it to make it appear like some panoramic real environment, in which case is re-created. A holographic projection, can be confused because is a projected imaged which is translated out of the equipment to show itself in the real time in front of us. Check how it is presented in this website called You Dream It, We Create it. A virtual reality image can only be perceived individually through an inner closed perceptual method, through out worn equipment over the eyes, like for example the Oculus Rift. The main objective is to step in the virtual world, like it was once described in Hollywood’s Motion Picture, featuring Pierce Brosnan, The Lawnmower. Take a closer look in Wall Street Journal's Article: Virtual-Reality Headset video, click here to watch. Holograms’ and three-dimensional equipment’s objective is to make it seem as real as possible without the need of use of glasses or any other equipment to see the image or re-created perception.