Whats puzzling to me is how the transition was done from having no feathers to having a full pair of wings. I assume that the live video was tracked and matched up to a tracked animation of the growing feathers. Wikipedia (which is normally opinions and not always factual, lol) explains it best "Motion capture, motion tracking, or mocap are terms used to describe the process of recording movement and translating that movement on to a digital model. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, and medical applications, and for validation of computer vision[1] and robotics. In filmmaking it refers to recording actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital character models in 2D or 3D computer animation. When it includes face and fingers or captures subtle expressions, it is often referred to as performance capture.
In motion capture sessions, movements of one or more actors are sampled many times per second, although with most techniques (recent developments fromWeta use images for 2D motion capture and project into 3D), motion capture records only the movements of the actor, not his/her visual appearance. Thisanimation data is mapped to a 3D model so that the model performs the same actions as the actor. This is comparable to the older technique of rotoscope, such as the 1978 The Lord of the Rings animated film where the visual appearance of the motion of an actor was filmed, then the film used as a guide for the frame-by-frame motion of a hand-drawn animated character.
Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt, or dolly around the stage driven by a camera operator while the actor is performing, and the motion capture system can capture the camera and props as well as the actor's performance. This allows the computer-generated characters, images and sets to have the same perspective as the video images from the camera. A computer processes the data and displays the movements of the actor, providing the desired camera positions in terms of objects in the set. Retroactively obtaining camera movement data from the captured footage is known as match moving or camera tracking."
Therese DePrez the Production Designer is an amazing artist in that there were things that I notice in this video that I had not seen before until it was mentioned. The designs worked so well to give off that emotional feeling that an artist like me did not even notice it. All the sets were made of black, white, silver and pink in the bedroom.
This movie seem to based on oxymorons which is expressed even in the name 'Black Swan'. I tend to agree with Mary Ann Johanson when she said "I am entirely sure that I love this about the film: that multiple viewings lead you to different conclusions about the psychological robustness of its central character, and about the truth of every event and every person encountered. And that perilous hold on reality is far from the only thing to love about this gorgeously horrific nightmare. Yes, Black Swan is a horror movie, magnificently brutal and dread-full, sophisticated in its slipperiness and elegant in its play on the “evil twin” trope. It’s absurdly campy and intensely bleak at the same time. It refuses to give in to the ridiculous notion that a story about a woman must be of interest only to women, as so many films do by avoiding acknowledging that the authorities and madnesses of women are human, instead of somehow indicative of a peculiar female malady... and so Black Swan becomes that rarity, a story about a woman that is -- or should be -- universal in appeal and power."
This movie seem to based on oxymorons which is expressed even in the name 'Black Swan'. I tend to agree with Mary Ann Johanson when she said "I am entirely sure that I love this about the film: that multiple viewings lead you to different conclusions about the psychological robustness of its central character, and about the truth of every event and every person encountered. And that perilous hold on reality is far from the only thing to love about this gorgeously horrific nightmare. Yes, Black Swan is a horror movie, magnificently brutal and dread-full, sophisticated in its slipperiness and elegant in its play on the “evil twin” trope. It’s absurdly campy and intensely bleak at the same time. It refuses to give in to the ridiculous notion that a story about a woman must be of interest only to women, as so many films do by avoiding acknowledging that the authorities and madnesses of women are human, instead of somehow indicative of a peculiar female malady... and so Black Swan becomes that rarity, a story about a woman that is -- or should be -- universal in appeal and power."
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