How ‘Maze Runner’ and Barco’s New Panoramic Format Could Alter Moviemaking
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In the case of The Maze Runner, the film was shot in a traditional way, before the decision to use Escape was made. The center screen will display the live-action film, and imagery on the side screens will be extensions of the scenes — i.e., a larger maze — created using visual effects.
“Based on the speed we needed to get this to market and the creative challenges, we tried a new way of rendering and creating the material,”Ted Schilowitz, who is Barco’s “CinemaVangelist” and also works as a futurist at Fox, tells The Hollywood Reporter. This pipeline was built around a Crytek gaming engine for rendering, and computing hardware from Devil & Demon (Schilowitz is president of D&D).
See the full story here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/how-maze-runner-barcos-new-728641