Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
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- Slack to all sheets!
- Aye, aye, Captain.

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Cut the fore and main trusses! Move!
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There's a great place for us
to develop some ideas...

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and lay out just...
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I remember sending a whole lot of coverage
down to Tom...

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and encouraging him
to choose the best bits...

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and then seeing the final cut.
I think he used everything of it.

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Fine-tuning and the editing here
works really great.

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The edge-of-the-world effect
was one of the first big CG effects...

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that was developed
by our 3D effects department...

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and the big challenge
was not just to convey...

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water going off the edge of the world...
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from the distant perspective of Sinbad
and his boat as they approach...

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but also to convey the spectacular updraft...
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which is going to carry the boat across
to the gateway afterwards.

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And they developed this really beautiful
sort of veil...

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of wind-whipped water that...
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We looked at the Bridal Veil Falls
from Yosemite...

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which pushes so much air down...
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that the falls actually flow upward
for part of it.

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There's a beautiful sail animation
just when the sails are slack...

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of these things kind of
being whipped around...

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by the wind and then to rig them
in a configuration...

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that would actually fly,
was Seth Engstrom's design.

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Come on!
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Of course, all their legs would be broken
if that really happened.

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Luckily, it's animation
and our characters survived.

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And Sinbad's lost his hat
till the end of the movie, right?

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Oh, boy, that was a debate.
His hat was on every scene for a while...

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and then we realized we weren't doing
our main character justice...

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and so the hat's off.
Several key points throughout the picture.

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He just looks a lot more manly
without the hat.

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Manly, yes, but I liked it.
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Great 3D lighting of the boat through here,
these next couple of shots.

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Light through the sails.
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That was a great shot.
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Didn't you add that in the layout, Damon?
The shot with the mast shaking?

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Yeah, we spent ages animating it
to try and solve it...


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