Tuesday, August 5, 2014

A digital and divisive redesign of 'Ninja Turtles'

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Jeremy Howard portraying the character Donatello from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." The live-action reimagining of the 30-year-old comic book franchise out Friday features a completely computerized version of the sewer-dwelling superheroes, a take more akin to Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings" films or Caesar from the recent "Planet of the Apes" movies than the rubbery renditions from the 1990s films. For the reboot, the performers physically portraying the Ninja Turtles donned skintight grey getups and shell-shaped backpacks, while helmets equipped with cameras captured their facial expressions. Everything was later replaced on screen with hulking, emoting green avatar. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Industrial Light & Magic) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Over the past two years, inside the high-tech sanctuary of Industrial Light and Magic, the man who built a virtual virgin jungle for the last "Indiana Jones" movie and conjured 150-foot-tall aliens for "War of the Worlds" has been confronting his most difficult task yet: creating a digital version of the beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that could realistically interact on screen with Megan Fox.








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