9Taking an 11-minute short film created for a school thesis and turning it into a major motion picture that’s been the buzz of the internet for the last year is no small feat, but ‘9’ has bucked the trend and created a real masterpiece of digital cinema.  Over at CGSociety, Renee Dunlop got some inside information on how they made the transition from ‘garage’ to ‘Hollywood’ and managed to preserve their limited-resource mindset to keep the film in check.

“We weren’t doing fancy cloth simulations or subsurface scattering; we were a couple years behind the newest technology,” explained Ksander. “But again, because our time was so short and our budget was small, you are forced to be creative and efficient. So our characters have no skin, no hair. We were judicious about where we spent that money, like in terms of the FX. Our FX guys did some great stuff.

via CGSociety – ‘9’.

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