ILM Talks the Destruction of Chicago in Dark Of The Moon
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:00 pm
If you were like many other people watching Dark Of The Moon, then you were mesmerized by the pure destruction and devastation the movie brought to Chicago. Visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and Digital Production Supervisor Nigel Sumner talk about the complexities of those scenes. The video can be seen on thedaily.com.
thedaily.com wrote:The driller itself, a companion to the Decepticon robot Colossus, is possibly ILM’s most complicated CG creature to date, with more than 70,000 parts.
“He’s comprised of 16 individual assets,” said Sumner. “He has a head, a body, but he also has five arms, three legs and a tail, a lot of which you don’t necessarily gain on an initial viewing.”
Ultimately, the driller’s menacing combination of spinning rotator blades, knives and teeth make short work of the skyscraper.