{"id":132,"date":"2004-12-23T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:22:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:22:54","slug":"technical-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/technical-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"9.5 The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most visually stunning computer animation display to date.  Imagine seeing a gentle snowfall in 3D, and you&#8217;ve just started to understand how beautiful this film was.  Not just cheesy layers of occasional 3D, but a total, immersive 3D world.  Everyone loved it, even Wrenny, who closed her eyes a few times when things got scary.  A nicely done story about a kid recapturing his faith (even if it was faith in some guy in a red suit).  It was below freezing and windy at the IMAX theater, which added to the ambiance.<\/p>\n<p>From a technical perspective, the only thing that still needed work was modelling the physics of the human body better &#8211; all the human characters still had that imperfectly-motion-captured jerkiness.  But the richness of the 3D world drawn on the huge IMAX screen was simply stunning.<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/ThePolarExpress2.jpg?w=656\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most visually stunning computer animation display to date. Imagine seeing a gentle snowfall in 3D, and you&#8217;ve just started to understand how beautiful this film was. Not just cheesy layers of occasional 3D, but a total, immersive 3D world. Everyone loved it, even Wrenny, who closed her eyes a few times when things got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/technical-marvel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9.5 The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-cool-movies","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-28","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/more-more-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":0},"title":"8.5 IMAX Attack of the Clones","author":"m","date":"November 9, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a good time watching this one - beautiful panoramic scenes filling your vision while you can feel the bass of huge spaceships with those great Star Wars sound effects move your clothing. 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