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Originally Posted by Christopher Nicholson
Meanwhile, does anyone know where I can track down some very cost effective full size Albatros biplane fighters?
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Some of the mock-ups used in the german film about MvR were sold at eBay not long ago, at least a Sopwith Camel. Probably the Albatros are still around somewhere, and they made a whole Jasta of them. Maybe you should contact the producers of this film.
About CGI, I think the point Chris is highlighting is not the use of CGI. Nowadays it would be impossible finnancially to build flying replicas in great quantities, and the insurance expenses would be astronomical. CGI are needed, since there are no flying RE8s, very few Albatros, only one or two german two-seaters... The important thing about CGI is avoiding "the CGI look" by using real camera techniques. If you look at recent air combat movies what tells the tale about computer models is not the lighting, textures, shadows, bump maps, backgrounds, render quality etc. That's already have been mastered to perfection. But when films were filmed with real camera planes obviously the camera had to be attached to the plane, not floating still in the middle of the air.
The way to make it understandable to the computer animators would be to make them attach the virtual camera to a virtual plane and shoot the CGI sequences from there, obviously programming the correct dynamics for those planes. Just my 2¢, that I previosly sent to the producers of the german film but were ignored
