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Blur Studio located in Culver City, California creates beautiful 3D animation clips. Their images, which typically portray the unnatural, seem to somehow actually be real. They also have a video reel in the article about them, which can be seen here.

I never realized that some of the images in movies such as Thor (which was frequently displayed in the video reel), were made completely by utilizing computer graphics. The image below particularly caught my interest, though, because I found it to be very interesting to look at. I was not aware that this image and other images like it are made entirely from computer graphics. I had thought that they took videos and pictures of people and just added the effects in rather than being entirely computer-generated. I also thought that for the Thor action sequences as well, so it was a very cool thing to learn about.

This company was founded in 1995 by Tim Miller, a director, and David Stinnett, a visual effects supervisor. They presumably drew from their backgrounds in film to create this company and its productions, and they have certainly melded their prior experience with the rapid growth of technology for the duration of their company’s existence.

These 3D graphics have been storming screens everywhere, and, if made any more realistic, they have the potential to completely replace actors in films while still making a realistic-looking movie. Companies like Blur Studios are taking this cinematic revolution in stride as more and more animated clips are inserted into films to make for fantastic productions that marry the extraordinary with the mundane.