Watch Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000) Free Online

Release Date: 2000

Cast: Leonard Nimoy, Brendan Fraser, Mark Hamill, Jennifer Hale, John Rhys-Davies

Categories: Movies, Adventure, Fantasy, Computer Animation, Children'S/Family, Family, Fantasy Adventure, Animation

Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000) is the first feature length CGI film created exclusively using motion capture. While many animators worked on the project, the human characters were entirely animated using motion capture. At a reported US$30 million, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is reported to be the most expensive direct-to-video movie ever shot. It was filmed at Raliegh Studios in Los Angeles, over a three-month period in 1997. Along with Pandavas: The Five Warriors (also from 2000), this was one of the first computer-graphics-based features made in India. The Pentamedia... MORE

Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000) is the first feature length CGI film created exclusively using motion capture. While many animators worked on the project, the human characters were entirely animated using motion capture. At a reported US$30 million, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is reported to be the most expensive direct-to-video movie ever shot. It was filmed at Raliegh Studios in Los Angeles, over a three-month period in 1997. Along with Pandavas: The Five Warriors (also from 2000), this was one of the first computer-graphics-based features made in India. The Pentamedia company was behind both of these productions. Sinbad (voiced by Brendan Fraser) "discovers a mysterious island ruled by King Akron (voiced by John Rhys-Davies) and his daughter, Princess Serena (voiced by Jennifer Hale)". Threatened by the powerful wizard Baraka (voiced by Leonard Nimoy), Serena asks for his help in creating a spell that "will conquer Baraka once and for all". Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists was billed as "the first full-length animated feature using the 3-D animated motion capture process". The film used different actors for the motion caption of the main characters based on their LESS