Patients Come to the Rescue of Special Effects: Why Patients Are an Essential Element in the Protection of Computer-Generated Special Effects
Mikael Havluciyan · bepress Legal Repository · 1997
The widespread success of movies like Jurassic Park ' and Jumanj] indicates that the exciting field of computer-generated imaging is primed to make its presence well known in the film industry.More telling is the success of the three-dimensional ("3-D") animated movie Toy Story, 3 which was made entirely through computer-generated imaging.Special effects, especially those involving computer animation, are now so important to the movie industry that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences 5 granted branch status to its visual effects members in February of 1995.6It is no secret that Hollywood has been courting Silicon Valley firms ever since the release of Jurassic Park.More than four years later, the marriage of the computer and film industries has been consummated.Today, few movies are made without the aid of computer graphics and computer-generated imagery.7 Even in a movie such as Sense and