Killer visual effects behind "Dark of the Moon"

[Novasaige]

i loved this movie so much. but the only thing wrong was that you have a huge planet coming in our world in our atmosphere....dont ya think there would be earthquakes or something if something that big is close to earth?

[ProductiveVFX]

Just EPIC!!!

[mynameisAlucard666]

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[tlehmann1996]

After the second movie, I wasn't expecting all that much from the third, but it was ok. I just really wanted to see what special effects they could come up with, especially in 3D.

R.I.P. Ironhide.

[ivanandrews29]

@tlehmann1996 Tf3 is "Ok" lol Tf3 was the death of any movie in 2012

[Levente20]

probably the shittest movie in film history. keep it up michael bay.. fail

[jokerboy6053]

what do they use

[jumpmanajf]

Damn such a waste of great efx in such a piece of shit

[BMAnnArbor]

@jpgarcia6 best of luck to you. It pays well. My team of 6 teenagers is getting $50,000 over the next few months for VFX.

[suicunesrider]

Good God, the effects in this movie were frigging incredible. Second only to Avatar, nowadays. @_@

[doltBmB]

@suicunesrider Here's something you kids maybe don't know these days, but if you can tell it's an effect at all, it's not "incredible".

[Nobiemon]

@doltBmB Well obviously it's not like they're going to actually topple a building, let alone build actual living, moving robots. The praise for this movie's effects is for how seamless they are, besides being spectacular.

[doltBmB]

@Nobiemon Why not? Countless robots and puppets have been built for film, including the dinos in Jurassic Park and the Rancor in ROTJ etc. And ID4 blew up a scale model of the white house. Sometimes I think this CG think rots peoples imaginations and instead of thinking up a practical solution to a real world problem they just go "we'll have to do it in post hur durr"

[RonDiRebel]

This Reminds Me Of MW3 With Autobots In It.

[arnieiam]

in the first film the animators were really meticulous with their work thats why it looked really sleek, the second one looked a little choppy since the animators had to do alotta action scenes but the 3rd one seemed to balance it

[ryantheram719]

The particle effects of the moon atmosphere when the villains pop out is fantastic

[gc3k]

this movie was silly but it definitely looked great

[yadavkrishna11]

Its an amazing result of all the hard work in these visuals..... Awesome..

[LemonLimeGrl]

welp, that's a michael bay movie for you.

[VanKrixsz101]

dude .. .i really really wait for this video.. .the update of mr..scott.. .thank you.. i hope more updates to come.. .

[TheMightySandwich]

Wich programs were used for the models?

[icannotfly]

@TheMightySandwich knowing ILM, probably XSI

[TheMightySandwich]

@icannotfly do you know some of the software ILM uses?

[icannotfly]

@TheMightySandwich yes; XSI. search wiki for "softimage XSI" if you want to learn more. there's a free edition for students called the "XSI Mod Tool" which you can use to experiment and play around.

[rasika666]

@icannotfly i dont mean to be a know it all.. but pretty sure ILM ditched SI a coupla years ago. their entire pipeline is based on an sofware environment of sorts called Zeno. primary 3D tool - maya.

again, this is all hearsay...

[bouchandre]

@TheMightySandwich ILM used to be a big Softimage (XSI) user, but now they use maya instead. Anyway I'm still sure that they still use it today, but less than Maya.

[digitalArtform]

Hey! Is that why my ticket is so expensive? So that animator has time to go to the gym and get buff????

j/k :D

[loocasduber]

@digitalArtform Dude, if you've worked in the VFX industry, you'd have known better... there is nothing like "time" in the lives of the animators and vfx artists. Believe me. I slept quite a few times at the company we were working at on a much, much smaller production than this monstrosity. I can imagine the hell it must have been to produce such shots.

[digitalArtform]

@loocasduber j/k means 'just kidding.' and the colon followed by the D is something called an emoticon. If you tilt you head sideways it looks like a big smile.

[loocasduber]

@digitalArtform But I have more thumb-ups than you, which means I am more right! ;)

[BMAnnArbor]

@loocasduber Yeah I hate that. My company is working on a film for this guy. He already has the script done but he refuses to let us start working on anything (including the 100% CG shots) until March.

[jpgarcia6]

@BMAnnArbor How do you have your own company? If you can get paid I think I can get paid as well. 

[nakazatoGTR]

@loocasduber hardware, software, and tankards of coffee

[Kelleymuro]

Thumbs up for Michael Bay shooting real explosions!

[jay6610]

COOL!