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foifoi05 wrote:

Phategod1 wrote:I gotta go with WETA most of the Organic stuff they do is amazing. I'd love to see how they handle Non-organic things like the TF's

you mean u wanted WETA on this for curiosity's sake? not that i dont trust WETA but i wont let them experiment on TF first. But i think WETA could make a better godzilla remake (the classic that is)

No, he's just saying that he would be interested to see, in a hypothetical situation, how WETA would handle the Bayformers.


I think they would be relatively the same. ILM is so awesome when it comes to stuff like this. I'd leave WETA to the organic stuff. They must love to do all that painstaking rendering, lighting dynamic work, and I say let them have it.

sorry if it sounded rude. Anyway, i think it would be great if both could team up for this. While ILM is great doing CGs in a realworld setting,... WETA will do the Cybertron scene werein everything starts from scratch, i can imagine now an epic battle of bots viewed from the top ala LOTR

Weta always looks real, but only when set in a real world setting. ILM always looks fake, but can do more things that couldn't have been done before the 21st centuary. They make a good team for a movie like this.

hot rod 907 wrote:Weta always looks real, but only when set in a real world setting.

Real worlds like Middle Earth, crazy jungle islands where dinosaurs are still alive, and future settings with robots taking over?

Dark Zarak wrote:

hot rod 907 wrote:Weta always looks real, but only when set in a real world setting.

Real worlds like Middle Earth, crazy jungle islands where dinosaurs are still alive, and future settings with robots taking over?

i also thought of that

Still think I would have like dto see what Weta would have come up with..ILM may have wrote the book on Sci-Fi robotics and ect.. but its not too far out of whack to expect that another effects studio couldn't do the same.. regardless of us not seeing that being done by them yet..Its called having faith in others.. and also beliveing that people are capable of making decisions....or in this case have enough talent to try to tackle the transformers..I think to settle the arguement we need someone who has an inside friend at WETA, and send a Challenge to their design staff to produce some 3-D artwork on their interpretations of what The Transformers in live action would look like had their studio done the job...

Now that would be interesting

i choose the company that worked on star wars i dont know what the two comapnies work look like so i choose the one ive seen more and liked it might be off topic but who is doing the effects on this film.?

are weta and ilm working togeather or is it differnt company alll togeather.?

It's ILM. The company who worked on the Star Wars films aside from a hundred other films.

dragons wrote:are weta and ilm working togeather or is it differnt company alll togeather.?

ILM, Industrial Light and Magic. They got started with the original Star Wars in 1977. Ever since they have done most major effects work for movies like Jurassic Park, Terminators, Aliens (I think), Predator (I think), and now Transformers. They did all the Star Wars movies.

WETA is named after a giant New Zealand bug. They did Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and I Robot. I don't know of any others they did.

I personally like WETA better because they do such wonderful looking organic creatures, whereas ILM, while awesome, do much better work on mechanical stuff. In the case of Transformers, it's setting up to be awesome. And damn the naysayers to Hell. Okay, a few designs are kind of dumb, but for the most part, awesome.

Dark Zarak wrote:

dragons wrote:are weta and ilm working togeather or is it differnt company alll togeather.?

ILM, Industrial Light and Magic. They got started with the original Star Wars in 1977. Ever since they have done most major effects work for movies like Jurassic Park, Terminators, Aliens (I think), Predator (I think), and now Transformers. They did all the Star Wars movies.

WETA is named after a giant New Zealand bug. They did Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and I Robot. I don't know of any others they did.

I personally like WETA better because they do such wonderful looking organic creatures, whereas ILM, while awesome, do much better work on mechanical stuff. In the case of Transformers, it's setting up to be awesome. And damn the naysayers to Hell. Okay, a few designs are kind of dumb, but for the most part, awesome.

As far as I know Aliens (the second) and Predator 1 and 2 were done by Stan Winston and his studio. I'm not certain who did the other Alien films but I know it wasn't ILM. ILM also didn't do the effects for the original Terminator, though they did the 2nd and 3rd.

foifoi05 wrote:sorry if it sounded rude. Anyway, i think it would be great if both could team up for this. While ILM is great doing CGs in a realworld setting,... WETA will do the Cybertron scene werein everything starts from scratch, i can imagine now an epic battle of bots viewed from the top ala LOTR

Eragon apparently had both companies working on it (though I'm not sure of the specifics).