Tron: a taste of movies to come (Image: Walt Disney Productions)
Editorial: “Lights, computer, action!“
PICTURE this: it is 2016 and Brad Pitt’s latest heist film, Ocean’s Fifteen, is a roaring box-office success. Moviegoers can’t get enough of his wit, charm and ever-youthful good looks – except the man himself never set foot in front of a camera. Instead, Pitt’s digital image was recreated on screen by teams of visual effects artists, leaving the actor free to work on other projects.
This scenario is quite plausible. Motion-capture technology has created realistic non-humans, such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings…
