For Industrial Light & Magic, realizing the virtual reality of The Oasis from “Ready Player One” became an eerie trip down memory lane, as they recreated the “Back to the Future” DeLorean and the “Jurassic Park” T-Rex, among other iconic ’80s goodies.
And while it was extremely difficult building the virtual worlds of the Oasis and animating the avatars so they believably resembled their real-world counterparts (who were motion captured), the geekiest part was reconstructing the interior of The Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s horror fave, “The Shining.” It was a Steven Spielberg masterstroke, a virtual thrill ride, in which the High Five enter the Overlook in search of the Jade Key, with Aech (Lena Waithe) stumbling through the movie within the movie, having never seen “The Shining.”
“The Shining” Meta Experience
But Roger Guyett, Ilm’s production visual effects supervisor (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) was skeptical at first,...
And while it was extremely difficult building the virtual worlds of the Oasis and animating the avatars so they believably resembled their real-world counterparts (who were motion captured), the geekiest part was reconstructing the interior of The Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s horror fave, “The Shining.” It was a Steven Spielberg masterstroke, a virtual thrill ride, in which the High Five enter the Overlook in search of the Jade Key, with Aech (Lena Waithe) stumbling through the movie within the movie, having never seen “The Shining.”
“The Shining” Meta Experience
But Roger Guyett, Ilm’s production visual effects supervisor (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) was skeptical at first,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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