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Offline Artiste

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Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« on: March 20, 2007, 06:37:59 pm »
Do you know if some sheep were NOT realsheep in the Brokeback Mountain film?

What do you think?

Sample(s) or proof(s) please.

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2007, 07:10:21 pm »
I have proof!

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2007, 09:30:10 pm »
What is your proof j.U.d.E.?

May I ask?

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2007, 12:07:17 am »
Along the same lines - how did Aguirre know that some of the sheep did not go up with Jack & Ennis? Did they appear thinner or less healthy? I always wondered about that.
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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2007, 12:33:58 am »
Thanks BBM-Cat2006!!

The sheep were marked with colour (or branded??)! But I guess some were NOT, especially lost ones, and the babies??

Some sheep were NOT sheep, really!!

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2007, 12:56:25 am »
Artiste,

I found this posted on Towleroad:

Do Cowboys Dream of Electric Sheep?

02/07/2006

Here's something I hadn't read before. You wouldn't necessarily think of Brokeback Mountain as an effects-heavy film. And its budget of $13 million certainly wouldn't have allowed for a lot of CGI. But you might be surprised to learn that of the 75 visual effects created for the film, 15 of them were for the sheep. Three-dimensional sheep replications, apparently require a tremendous amount of effort according to the UW Madison Daily Cardinal, but Ang Lee used them to help shape the character of the mountain itself.

"Lee’s control fix induced many challenges, including attempts to stage over 2,500 sheep in some scenes. The actual set of the film only used 700 sheep, partly because of Canada’s comedic concern for the spreading of American diseases to their sheep. Lee’s compulsive perfectionism even pressured Morin (the visual effects supervisor) to visit the Calgary set often so he could blend 3-D created shots seamlessly with cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s sensationally captured natural scenery."
Hats off to Morin on that one. The landscapes were pure fairy tale (so to speak), and I was especially dazzled by the amorphous, woolly herd that drifted over the side of the mountain, even if much of that wool was pure pixels.

I also found this detail fairly humorous:

"CGI allowed Lee to better direct elements like nature and animals, which fits his taste perfectly, as Lee claims he despises working with animals and says he would rather not work with sheep again."

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2007, 07:03:02 am »
Do you know if some sheep were NOT realsheep in the Brokeback Mountain film?

What do you think?

Sample(s) or proof(s) please.

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Check out this link:  http://www.buzzimage.com/en/work/making_of/33  I think you will enjoy seeing how they did some of the special effects in BbM...
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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2007, 10:18:16 am »
Check out this link:  http://www.buzzimage.com/en/work/making_of/33  I think you will enjoy seeing how they did some of the special effects in BbM...

That was awesome.  Thanks for posting the link.  :)

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2007, 10:46:40 am »
Yes, you are right!

That is why I created this thread!

Some sheep are make-believe in many ways.

Some are just drawings created on a computor! Line drawings, and after the drawer adds hair, move that image in different ways... many sizes!

Yes, indeed worth while to see one co. which did this in Montreal, Canada!! Great!!

Any other cos??

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Re: Some sheep were NOT sheep in the Brokeback Mountain film??
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2007, 10:47:13 am »
I believe it also shows some of the mountains were not real either.
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