“There was no template. No one had done this before.”.
Whenever Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is brought up today, it’s usually as a punchline to a joke or as a cautionary tale about a film production spiraling out of control and going way over budget. Yet that doesn’t present a full picture of the complex legacy the film has left behind.
Sure, The Spirits Within was a huge box office bomb and got something of a mixed reception from critics upon its release — with some sources even suggesting its financial failure played a role in the film’s director / Final Fantasy’s original creator Hironobu Sakaguchi leaving Square — but it also laid the blueprint for modern filmmaking with its pioneering use of motion-capture technology to present “photo-realistic” animated humans on screen for the very first time. So, with that in mind, we didn’t just want to treat the film as a punching bag but try and present a more well-rounded retrospective of its creation.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“There was no template. No one had done this before.”.
Whenever Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is brought up today, it’s usually as a punchline to a joke or as a cautionary tale about a film production spiraling out of control and going way over budget. Yet that doesn’t present a full picture of the complex legacy the film has left behind.
Sure, The Spirits Within was a huge box office bomb and got something of a mixed reception from critics upon its release — with some sources even suggesting its financial failure played a role in the film’s director / Final Fantasy’s original creator Hironobu Sakaguchi leaving Square — but it also laid the blueprint for modern filmmaking with its pioneering use of motion-capture technology to present “photo-realistic” animated humans on screen for the very first time. So, with that in mind, we didn’t just want to treat the film as a punching bag but try and present a more well-rounded retrospective of its creation.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
