Avatar is, of course, up for a Technical Oscar thanks to its impressive use of motion tracking and computer graphics, but also for it’s lesser known implementation of TrueLight and LightStage to bring some of the most realistic lighting effects ever to film.
“Computer displays have a different color space compared to film; colors that I can see on a computer, I can’t always reproduce on film and vice-versa,” said Mark Wolforth, an electrical and biomedical engineer who specializes in imaging with FilmLight Limited. “Truelight is a color management system that keeps the colors the same so whether you are looking at a scene on film or you are looking at the same scene on a computer screen, the colors will look exactly the same.”
The article gets in-depth into the technical requirements and achievements of the technology.
