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Tackling digital effects such as colourisation, time-ramping, compositing and photo-realistic rendering, this monograph explores how the growing use of these post-photographic procedures shapes our relationship with the image and the world that the image represents. At stake is the ability to critically engage with the digital techniques that mediate perceptions of reality.
Through a series of case-studies the book connects the dominant techniques of hybridisation with emergent ways of being in our increasingly hybrid physical-digital world. Pointing at the relationship between mainstream visual culture and the manifold imperatives of digital technology and digital culture, Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects highlights how a handful of digital visual effects are coming to shape the way we live.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘It’s a Dinosaur’
Approaches to Hybrid Images
Approaches to Digital Media
The Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects
Conclusion
The Colourised Archive
Contexts and Theoretical Background
Analysing They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
Conclusion
Hybrid Spaces, Digital Compositing and Holograms
Contexts and Theoretical Background
Acclimatising to Hybrid Spaces in Altered Carbon (2018–20)
Interactive Holograms
Counter-readings of Hybrid Spaces
Conclusion
The Hybrid Temporal Object
Background and Theoretical Contexts
The Constituent Parts of the Oner
The Operative Content of Continuity
Conclusion
Computer-Animation and Material Culture
Background and Theoretical Contexts
Skeuomorphs, Toy Story (1996–2019), Luxo World
Special Affect and The LEGO Movie (2014)
Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Index