John Gaeta, Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor of The Matrix, will go behind the creation of more than 2000 VFX shots for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions in a unique half-day seminar now added to the AEAF program.
Alongside Eon Entertainment VFX Supervisors John Desjardin and Dan Glass, Gaeta will explore how the stunning sequels were created across four years and produced simultaneously. The presentations will track the entire process that began with a year of conceptual art and extensive 3D planning, a 2-continent, 270-day shooting schedule (US and Australia), the formation of a state of the art visual effects facility (ESC), and the management of an array of supportive media products (game, animes, comics, etc.) through a custom built asset management system constructed by the visual effects department.
Gaeta's primary innovation for The Matrix has come to be known as ?Bullet Time,? a revolutionary technique for depicting cinematic action in the style of Japanese animation known as anim?.
?Our work on Reloaded was concentrated on creating hyper-real virtual cinema in pursuit of super-human events like the Burly Brawl, the Freeway Chase and Neo flying,? Gaeta explains. ?For Revolutions, we focused our efforts on rendering epic, Revelations-like confrontations between man and machine, as well as large-scale environments within the real world, like the Machine City and Zion. I hope that our work on both films compliments the most significant contributions to dark science fiction cinema since Blade Runner, Alien and a host of milestone high concept effects pictures.?
The Matrix Revolutions joins an AEAF 2003 Festival program packed with box-office-blockbusters and Academy-Award winning guest speakers. It will feature sessions on films such as Finding Nemo, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Warriors of Heaven Earth, and the forthcoming Peter Pan and The Cat in the Hat.
Motion Capture, CGI Animation and Compositing, three of the pillars supporting the digital moviemaking revolution in Hollywood, are to be tackled in in-depth Masterclasses being conducted at AEAF 2003 by Sony Pictures Imageworks, Industrial Light + Magic and Digital Pictures Australia.
We hope you will share our excitement in bringing this star-studded line up of speakers to Australia. Don?t miss out! Book your place today.
A full conference program can be viewed at http://www.dmw.com.au