{"id":3684,"date":"2004-05-07T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2015-01-18T00:14:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:14:40","slug":"3684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2004\/05\/07\/3684\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LotR, X2, Potc and Firefly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinescape.com\/0\/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&amp;this_cat=Saturn+Awards&amp;action=page&amp;obj_id=41467\">own you<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>So today I met with my friend Cathy to study for my Communications exam tomorrow. One of the first things we covered was Visual Deception, a small category of which was Prof Messaris&#8217;s &#8220;Top 5 Special Effects.&#8221; For some reason, Cathy wasn&#8217;t really up on the special effects scene, so the overwhelming majority of the two hours we had together was spent explaining to her stop-motion animation, the &#8220;Vertigo&#8221; effect, bullet time, the psychology behind a choice to use a &#8220;morph&#8221; in an ad, and the process and pros and cons of key-framing versus motion capture versus virtual world construction. At length. Three times.<\/p>\n<p>I love Cathy and she is usually quite brilliant, but gah. At least I got to gush a bit about LotR and Massive and Andy Serkis, as Prof Messaris used Gollum as his example for motion capture and the Ride of the Rohirrim for virtual world construction. So I guess it evens out. And I got really good Italian food afterwards, so life is good. And now, back to packing! My room looks like a bomb went off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LotR, X2, Potc and Firefly own you! So today I met with my friend Cathy to study for my Communications exam tomorrow. One of the first things we covered was Visual Deception, a small category of which was Prof Messaris&#8217;s &#8220;Top 5 Special Effects.&#8221; For some reason, Cathy wasn&#8217;t really up on the special effects &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2004\/05\/07\/3684\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}