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Titanic reused digital passengers again and again

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Why pay hundreds of background actors when you can just copy and paste them? James Cameron used motion capture on merely 40 actors to generate the thousands of digital passengers seen scrambling around the sinking ship. If you look closely during the wide shots, the same digital guy plummets to his icy demise about forty-seven times.

Titanic reused digital passengers again and again
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