ENTERTAINING THE FUTURE Colour Me Primary Mike Milne FrameStore You can always spot the computer graphics professionals in a movie audience. They're the ones that stay on to the very end of the credits, long after everybody else has gotten bored with discovering that the assistant deputy ladder-holder comes after the secondunit caterer's shoelace adviser, but that both of them come before any of those poor "pixel slaves" who worked 15-hour days for II months to produce the digital effects... but enough of that, that's a different story altogether. Recently, I was watching the credits at the end of a thoroughly competent effects film (Blade), waiting patiently for the CG listing at the very end, just before the assurance that "no animals were injured during the making of this picture" (no animals, but what about the effects crew?). When they finally rolled around, I found that I couldn't read them.The graphic designer had made a creative decision to make all the credits pure red, a reference (no doubt) to the colour of blood, which is a central feature of the preceding story. On the big screen, I expect it looked really cool. On the small screen (I was
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Entertaining the future: colour me primary
Milne, Mike
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, Volume 33 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 1999
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