Innovations
Matte World Digital was the first in the industry to apply radiosity rendering to film in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Barron's visual-effects crew collaborated with software company, LightScape, to simulate the indirect bounce-light effect of millions of neon lights of the 1970s-era Las Vegas strip. Significantly, radiosity rendering provided a true simulation of bounce-light in a computer-generated environment. Barron's cinematographic work would be honored in 2002 when he was named associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
To recreate 1970s-era San Francisco in David Fincher's Zodiac, MWD shot digital images of existing city-building textures, then added painted period details for establishing shots. One such shot includes the Embarcadero Freeway alongside the Ferry Building and San Francisco Bay. The freeway had been demolished after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake but was digitally "rebuilt" to visually set the time-frame for the film. To show time passing within the era, CG lighting techniques were applied for an animated sequence showing the Transamerica Pyramid being built. The shot was based on research Barron had done using historical photographs and architectural drawings.
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