ILM and Digital Domain VFX breakdown Transformers 3

[Maximus]

Dunno if you guys already saw it but its insane!

ILM


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Enjoy!

Max

[Ethangar]

Damn that is some amazing work.

[Memag]

CGI alone doesn't make a great movie.
Effects are great, but the movie sucked, just like the first two Bay attempts.




"..Michael Bay get's rich...the end."

[Rork]

Michael Bay movie = sensory overload

"We've got almost no script..... meh... just add awesomeness transforming robots, nobody will notice the gaping plotholes"

[Hirazi Blue]

But in defense of Michael Bay (if that's even possible... ),
these days way too many movies (and for instance SF-television series) lean way too much on (high-quality) VFX and the first budget cut in these productions more often than not is the writing staff... "Who needs a story, when we've got exploding buildings?"

Always reminds me of the English comedy show "not the nine-o-clock news", that did a segment once (in the early Eighties) about a music video entitled "nice video, shame about the song".

[Memag]

Budget limited CGI, great plot.

[Kzin]

"Who needs a story, when we've got exploding buildings?"

no, you think in the wrong direction, like alot of people. its not the cg that sells a movie, its the people which go in theaters and watch these movies with alot of effects. if people would watch movies without cg and the studios would make hundrets of millions of dollars, then no one would produce cg overkill movies. only independet cg movies would exist, what an interesting thought. ;)

[Hirazi Blue]

Seems like a "chicken or the egg" dilemma to me. It's very hard to prove or disprove, which came first. The sad fact is, that there are hardly any movies that successfully combine high-end ("overkill") CG and a well-written story... (which isn't to say there are none, mind, but definitively not many)
;)

[Maximus]

well this is a CG forum so i dont get why people are complaining about the plot or lack of story...
I mean..enjoy the VFX and thats it.

[Leo]

Yeah indeed.

[Hirazi Blue]

@Maximus - I respectfully disagree. The VFX stuff you posted is awesome, no doubt about it, but its part of a movie and people like me tend to still judge movies not only based solely on their VFX (yet?). And sometimes that spoils the fun of enjoying the VFX.
;)

[Maximus]

@Maximus - I respectfully disagree. The VFX stuff you posted is awesome, no doubt about it, but its part of a movie and people like me tend to still judge movies not only based solely on their VFX (yet?). And sometimes that spoils the fun of enjoying the VFX.
;)

Well yeah i agree on this but i posted a VFX behind the scenes, not the whole movie we can talk about! Just saying, my thread was specific to VFX and the first 6 comments was all about the plot and lack of depth. I dont really mind, i'm just sayin that as i put the thread was more oriented to a VFX discussion, not an analysis of the whole movie, else we can sit down and talk about the choice of the fonts they used in the theater manifesto

No big deal anyway, forum is free to talk about everything, i'm just surprised few comments on vfx and all about plot. thats it^^