Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
ドン・レヴィ 「視覚効果から見る映画史」
Don Levy has served on the frontlines of the digital transformation of entertainment. For 17 years, he led the communications efforts for top visual effects and digital animation studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks. He is fascinated by the magic of movies. Full bio
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もともとマジシャンでした
最高のメディアです
完璧にコントロールできるので
幻影を作ることを目指して
開発してきました
投影することで成り立つ―
当時の観客は心底 驚いたものです
現代の観客ですら
釘づけになります
ギャップを利用することで
想像力豊かな人々は
楽しんできました
デッラ・ポルタは
学びました
世界像を操ることが
掘り下げることで
真実が明らかになります
原理に基づいています
通りだという “先入観” ―
展開するという “思い込み” ―
世界に関する知識で
4つ目の要素は
気付かれてはならない”
目指してきました
手回しカメラを使っていた―
アカデミー賞受賞作まで
時に繰り返す様子です
とらえる力があると―
『アバター』 (2009年)
「起きたいの?いいわよ」
「ボーっとする?めまいは?」
キーフレーム アニメーション
『雨ぞ降る』 (1939年)
『2012』 (2009年)
実現できる ― ジョルジュ・メリエス”
実現できる ― ジョルジュ・メリエス”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Don Levy - Film executiveDon Levy has served on the frontlines of the digital transformation of entertainment. For 17 years, he led the communications efforts for top visual effects and digital animation studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks. He is fascinated by the magic of movies.
Why you should listen
Don Levy joined Sony Pictures Imageworks when it was “just 40 people and a dream” in 1995. Starting as an awards campaign consultant, he helped the studio grow in both size and reputation, beginning with its first Academy Award for the animated short “The ChubbChubbs” in 2003 and continuing with the 2005 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for “Spider-Man 2.” As the senior vice president of marketing and communications for Sony Pictures, he directed corporate communications, marketing and public relations for Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, as well as for Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Online Entertainment.
Levy left Sony Pictures in June of 2012 to develop a new family entertainment venture and found Smith Brook Farm, a media, entertainement and tech consultancy. At the same time, he is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts' Entertainment Technology Center and is teaching entertainment marketing at Boston University's Los Angeles Internship Program.
Levy is also member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on its feature animation nominating committee. The Academy helped tremendously in crafting the video montage in his talk, an exclusive for TED.
Don Levy | Speaker | TED.com