Oceania TRANSFORMERS!!! the live action movie tests.

Maybe Mr Average won't notice exactly what's wrong, but on a big screen, it'll usually be anough to not quite seel it, even if you don't know why.

Which should have included mass and physics.

 

That's why I turn to you guys Sithy and SoE!

 

I think of Sith and SOE as the Morpheus and Trinity of our time. "There's something...wrong with the clip. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind...driving you mad..."

 

That is the funniest thing I've read all year!

 

You're correct Mike
Except Sith and I KNOW what's wrong with the clip

 

And SoE really fills out that PVC catsuit...

Now, where were we?

If you want a good example of the piss poor comprehension (Almost as bad as the typos in my previous post) ILm has of dynamics such as weight, mass and environmental interaction, look no further than Anakin riding the creatures in the "Sound of Music" shot in Clones.

It also says a lot about their creature design. That animal would not be able to support itself on those stick legs.

Just for another example about design of such creatures, who has the Ronto toy? Are you able to make it stand up by itself without the weight of the Jawa figures on it's back? No?

Think about it...

 

Those creatures always remind me of fleas for some reason, with the whole huge abdomen thing.
Fleas have better equipped legs, though.

 

I don't have to think. I just rely on an EU trekkie to provide an explanation for ILM and George's breaches of Einstein, Newton, and Heisenberg. "Oh, the fleabeasts on Naboo? They have an organic gravity stabiliser that, like, makes them able to stand up. Oh, and they have a second heart to power their oversized brain, which is somewhere up around their excremental orifice."

 

You know, it was an even money bet who would post first, an EU zealot "correcting" me on how they work, or someone parodying them.

 

Only took me one hour and 18 minutes to do so, too.

 

I always assumed that the Cow thingies on Naboo were filled with a Gas in their huge butts, allowing them to movie freely.

Meh. It's all wiggedy whack.

 

I always just assumed that it was a fantasy movie with several elements that seem far-fetched for us earth-bound mortals and that's what made it 'fantasy'.

I would like to comment that lightsabres are completely unfeasible.

 

Yes but they some what (only in the OT) LOOKED possible.

 

Then of course there's the asteroid shaped as a shoe, but that's another story

 

I still expect a certain realism and believability in what I'm watching. I can accept sounds in space in a sci-fi as much as I can accept creatures of light. But if someone drops something on a planet, I expect it to fall down to the ground given a lack of explanation otherwise beforehand.

"It's fantasy" or "it's a movie" is no excuse for shoddy physics and animation in digital characters from the effects house that claims to be the leading edge in it's field.

 

It's funny that an 'amature' VFX house can make a cave troll looks heavy and realistic yet the 'leading' VFX house who invented the technology and was first in the game can't even get an armoured (no skin visable) motioncaptured clone trooper to look real.
*sigh*
Ahwell I blame Lucas...not the ILM supervisors.

 

Naturally, it's the director who OKs stuff as a final product for printing into the dit...

 

Not only that, he keeps giving them more work than they can handle and the go-ahead to experiment technology using his films.
No films should use experimental technology.
Test shots are for experiments...not films.

 

Agreed, you perfect things "off screen" then you show the audience the final product.

You don't boast that you have a break through in digital animation by having a main character completely digitally animated, give him an annoying voice, unbelievable physical characteristics and movement physics, give him centre stage at innapropriate moments during serious sequences of a much anticipated film, only to be upstaged a little later by a completely CGI character done right who is totally believeable and given life by an actual human in a much better film done by a comparitively unkown film production company churning out a trilogy that eclipses your latest effort to follow up your groundbreaking trilogy you fluked into success25 years before.

Ok, I'm done bagging ILM over the much superior WETA now, I still have to look the creature and droid designers from the PT in the face socially...

 

The main content of that post is possibly the longest sentence I've ever seen.

 

Incidentally, go here if you doubt the fact the Transformers are coming back on 4 July 2007...

 

Aside from the ones some of your clients recieve.

 

[ego]Not when I'm appearing on their behalf. [/ego]

 

Beam me up Scotty!
*inside joke*