The late star Marlon Brando was one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, and it has been said that the actor had a love-hate relationship with his work. There was even a time in the late 1980s, that the prominent actor got frustrations on his acting career that he even said it was a stupid "profession for a grown adult." Then Brando set aside his craft in acting during that time and set out to technology - the "digital equivalence."
Director Stevan Riley made a new documentary Listen to Me Marlon, where he compiled together a video footage that Brando has been working on for years, and Stevan Riley also combined it with Marlon Brando's rare interviews, in portrayal of the actor as a complicated and volatile soul.
There was even a video footage which Marlon Brando tried to create in the 90's where he intended it on his experimental film called Software.
The "digital equivalence," was the technology Brando used in his video clips. The digital equivalence technology can create photo-realistic digital double of a person that can look, move, and sound just like the original.
The technology has been a sought after by the computer-graphics industry. And when the potential of the technology got into the nerves of Marlon Brando, he then teamed up with a veteran cinematographer and graphics pioneer, Scott Billups - and both aimed the perfection of the technology.
The veteran cinematographer Billups, who also contributed a footage to the new documentary made by director Stevan Riley, Billups stated, "He dug technology - he always had the latest system," and the veteran cinematographer added: "He was always upgraded. He had some new Macs before I did - and I was a Mac developer."
Brando and Billups worked with brothers Stephen and Lloyd Addleman , who invented an early version of the 3D scanner hardware.
Billups explained, "The concept was for (the actor) to sit in this chair and get really still, and the scanner would go around you in 360 degrees (in) just under a minute," Billups also stated: "Sometimes the scanner would freeze up, so we'd spin the chair. You put somebody like Marlon in a chair and try to get an even spin on him - well, he's really not the kind of guy who likes to sit still for long."
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