Moving Pixels

It has been a while since I entered my last blog so many apologies and will try not to let it happen again. But saying that this will be a short blog entry. So for this latest entry I am going to be telling you about a book I got from my mum and dad for Christmas called Moving Pixels - Blockbuster Animation, Digital Art and 3D Modeling Today by Peter Weishar. The book is about basically what it says in the title and is an informative book on how these sorts of art are created and how difficult they are as well as how experimental each of them are.

The book explores various parts of CGI (Computer Generated Image) and how they are used across a wide vary of film and television, these ranging from mega blockbusters to the latest documentaries and goes into all the different companies who spend a lot of time and very hard work trying to make the CGI the best they can. All images shown in the book are from film, TV and computer games and fine art from the 21st century.

What I like about the book is not all the images taken from screen shots of the big films where more money than can be imagined was spent in the process of making them but the independent artwork from those who are making all the more obscure and strange images instead of the over the top CGI that we all see but what certain individuals consider to be an art more than say a big giant elephant from Lord of the Rings or a massive battle scene from Star Wars but just little objects etc seem to have a little more detail in them.