»DID THE MATRIX RELOADED AND REVOLUTIONS USE BULLET TIME?«

So, did they? answers on a post card. and what do we think about that? good, not good?
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Claire

They dont use bullet-time in the last two films. They kinda use instead a CG animated light version of bullet-time. I dont know why they decided to go with that, I found it disappointing when original bullet-time cinetography wasnt used in Reloaded and Revolutions. Could have been because of the large amount of money spent on the Zion fight, freeway chase, etc.

Well they dont really have "bullet" time, but they have slowed time down on ocassion (the 2 trucks crashing in M2).

They use it when Trinity is shot, for like half a second.

What about in the Burly Brawl, the Super Burly Brawl and the fight between Neo and Seraph all of those I thought used bullet-time? I know the freeway chase did the two 18 wheelers crashing into each other. Maybe I'm confused about what bullet-time is.

The actual bullet-time is used with 2 or 3 cameras recording and a bunch of still shot cameras. But in Reloaded and Revolutions they just use computer software to slow down and freeze certain objects or whatever they want.

They used Bullet Time (en.wikipedia.org...) but based on a different method.

John Gaeta (en.wikipedia.org...) and his team call it Virtual Cinematography (en.wikipedia.org...).

They take photos of real world places/sets (rooms etc) insert them in a computer and create digital sets based on them. That is called Image Based Rendering.

Then, by using Universal Capture, Motion Capture and Facial Capture they can (re)create photorealistic CG sequences.


Advantages:

The camera can move as the directors want. In M1 when they used the original Bullet Time technique based on Time Slice Photography the camera could only move in a circle around an actor/object.

The camera can go where a real world camera can't. There is no way that you could shoot the Burly Brawl CG sequences with not using Virtual Cinematography.

The movement is no longer choppy because they don't use Interpolation techniques as they did in M1.

Disadvantages:

Veeery expensive and the result might not be good in humans faces because it's really difficult for the CG team to recreate 3d human models of the actors that look, move act like the real actors.

As John Geata said about bullet time making M2/M3...

"Bullet time is so 90's"

He actually said: trueredpill.googlepages.com...

Also: matrix-explained.com...

th3 p4th wrote:

He actually said: trueredpill.googlepages.com... Also: matrix-explained.com...

Wow. I better watch what I say around here

I was close enough

Spinak wrote:

th3 p4th wrote: He actually said: trueredpill.googlepages.com... Also: matrix-explained.com... Wow. I better watch what I say around here I was close enough