Titanic Featurette – Creating the ‘Digital People’

Motion Capture is being used an awful lot these days but back in 1997, it was a very new concept. This great featurette from Titanic shows how motion capture was used to put people onto the ship for the panning across the digital versions of it.It is amazing to see how this has now become such a standard in the movie industry and how groundbreaking it was at the time. Rob Legato, the Visual Effects Supervisor talks us through the process.

James Cameron’s Titanic is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era — the “ship of dreams” — which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912.

Titanic is coming back to UK cinemas 6th April in 3D. Keep your eyes peeled on HeyUGuys tomorrow evening when we’ll be broadcasting a live stream of the world premiere live from the Royal Albert Hall.