The work of ILM folks (including VFX supervisor John Knoll) is being showcased in a site just launched to explore the mind-blowing visual effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Deadspan> <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#a7ebff;">Manspan>'s Chest.
Interactive clips at the site allow you to peel back layers of animation to see what ILM had to start with before transforming actors wearing tracking markers into astonishingly real characters. Test your effects awareness by making the call: what's real and what's ILM, rotate turntable models of the animated characters, and download some...
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Deadspan> <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#a7ebff;">Manspan>'s Chest" ruled the foreign box office for an eighth weekend, grossing an estimated $17.8 million from 48 territories.
Disney's seafaring sequel has now earned $554.7 million internationally; including its North American haul, the global total stands at $962.3 million.
Disney expects the title to surpass within a week the global gross of 2001's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" ($976.5 million), which would make "<span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Deadspan> <span class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#a7ebff;">Manspan>'s Chest" the third-biggest worldwide box office smash of all time.
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