Meaning of bigature | Babel Free

Definitions

A very large scale model.

Examples

“Richard brought me in to see the 'bigatures,' the not-so-miniature miniature sets the crew had painstakingly constructed, and they were so beautiful, so perfect, so real, that I wanted to cry.”

“In the sequence of The Fellowship of the Rings where Frodo and friends paddle through the feet of the Argonaths the camera vertiginously swivels up and beyond the two massive statues disturbing some nesting birds. The statues, of course, do not exist as they are just 'bigatures', neither do the birds, which are digitally created: […]”

“Obscuring the view of the Sweet Charity bridge was a “bigature” of the S.S. Venture from Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005).”

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