4 Things Art Historian Francesca Fiorani Wants You to Know About Leonardo da Vinci
Reading an article about a famous computer-generated scene in the Hollywood film “The Matrix Reloaded,” University of Virginia art history professor Francesca Fiorani couldn’t stop thinking about Leonardo da Vinci.
The article focused on a digitally created fight scene in the sci-fi film in which Keanu Reeves, as Neo, dodges a barrage of bullets. The artists and animators behind the 2003 film said the most difficult part of such scenes was realistically recreating the shadows on people’s faces in different, fast-changing positions. “That is the exact problem Leonardo da Vinci worked to solve, though of course, he worked with brushes and pigments instead of pixels,” Fiorani said.
The article focused on a digitally created fight scene in the sci-fi film in which Keanu Reeves, as Neo, dodges a barrage of bullets. The artists and animators behind the 2003 film said the most difficult part of such scenes was realistically recreating the shadows on people’s faces in different, fast-changing positions. “That is the exact problem Leonardo da Vinci worked to solve, though of course, he worked with brushes and pigments instead of pixels,” Fiorani said.
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