MATRIX2
Bullet Time was just the beginning...reinvents cinematography with The Matrix Reloaded.
WIRED Issue 11.05 - May 2003
...If the dojo fight in The Matrix was a kung fu sonata, the Burly Brawl is a symphony. Neo tears the sign from the ground and wields it as a kendo sword, vaulting pole, and battering ram. ...When Neo and Agent Smith walk into the courtyard, they are the real Reeves and Weaving. But by the time the melee is in full effect, everyone and everything on the screen is computer-generated - including the perspective of the camera itself, steering at 2,000 miles per hour and screaming through arcs that would tear any physical camera apart.
This is virtual cinematography, but the most impressive thing about the Burly Brawl is that it doesn't look virtual at all....Previous attempts to render faces with enough verisimilitude so that a camera could linger produced virtual visages that had a plastic, androidal quality, like the all-digital actors in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
