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News Credits: 7 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:51 pm

All of the Transformers faces in this movie are humanoid(or they don't have a face at all in case of the Lockdown soldiers)I wonder if people were pleased by this.

News Credits: 1235 · Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:28 am

ILMVisualFX has uploaded a new video on Youtube giving a sampling of ILM's visual effects work for Transformers Age of Extinction. Check out some of the work the ILM team puts into various shots in the video embedded below.

Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:21 pm

At 1:16 into the video- Crosshairs has a beard/stubble?! :shock:

News Credits: 462 · Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:24 pm

Metro Prime wrote:At 1:16 into the video- Crosshairs has a beard/stubble?!

It's the lighting/shadow on the angles of his chin.

He does have a mustache, though.

Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:38 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:At 1:16 into the video- Crosshairs has a beard/stubble?!
It's the lighting/shadow on the angles of his chin.

He does have a mustache, though.

This definitely doesn't look like a shadow:

You can also see it here:

It's actually very appropriate, considering Crosshairs's personality and voice actor.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:30 pm

Metro Prime wrote:This definitely doesn't look like a shadow:

Sure it does. Those parts angle downward and inward, being the undersides of his nose and lips.

Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:49 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:This definitely doesn't look like a shadow:
Sure it does. Those parts angle downward and inward, being the undersides of his nose and lips.

And I'm going to argue against both explanations. What you have is a CG animator taking artistic license with his color palette and letting the audience run wild with its imagination. There are indeed two different colors but the shadow theory is nixed because, in the close up pic, there are two colors on the same plane on the left side of his face (our right side as we look at it) and it's receiving even light
The facial hair theory is blown because the deeper color that is supposed as "facial hair" is such that, if you take his entire face into account, he would have "hair" all over his face in a pattern and places that no human would ever have it.
Nice to see your imaginations are still working boys, but that's all you've got there ...imagination. Follow the patterns, follow the full degree of lighting and then get inside the mind of a CGI guy and you'll have your answer. I know, my way isn't as much fun.

Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:37 am

CrankyOldTruck wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:This definitely doesn't look like a shadow:
Sure it does. Those parts angle downward and inward, being the undersides of his nose and lips.

And I'm going to argue against both explanations. What you have is a CG animator taking artistic license with his color palette and letting the audience run wild with its imagination. There are indeed two different colors but the shadow theory is nixed because, in the close up pic, there are two colors on the same plane on the left side of his face (our right side as we look at it) and it's receiving even light
The facial hair theory is blown because the deeper color that is supposed as "facial hair" is such that, if you take his entire face into account, he would have "hair" all over his face in a pattern and places that no human would ever have it.
Nice to see your imaginations are still working boys, but that's all you've got there ...imagination. Follow the patterns, follow the full degree of lighting and then get inside the mind of a CGI guy and you'll have your answer. I know, my way isn't as much fun.

Animators can't just "take artistic license". Paramount had to give ILM some finalized (or at least near finalized) concept art at some point, which they used for the final models. ILM cannot just alter the designs because they feel like it. The only spot that's even out of place or unnatural, at least noticably so, is the stuff under his eyes, and that could easily be war paint or anti-glare stripes. AND EVEN THEN, they're giant alien shapeshifting robots. Do you really expect their facial "hair", if it's even hair, to conform exactly to human facial hair growth patterns?

News Credits: 22 · Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:47 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:This definitely doesn't look like a shadow:
Sure it does. Those parts angle downward and inward, being the undersides of his nose and lips.

I disagree. There's nothing about the facial structure suggesting that those parts are angled inward. Also, they're the same shade above and under his mouth. So if he has a mustache (as you claim) then he has to have a small beard, or at the very least, stubble. Otherwise, he has neither, which is what it looks like to me. If he did, his face would look a little more like Sentinel's did in DoTM, not flat and smooth as it does in those stills.

News Credits: 22 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 10:21 am

News Credits: 462 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:52 am

Rodimus Prime wrote::lol:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ler/31445/

News Credits: 22 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:12 pm

So now 2 threads have the video.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:15 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:So now 2 threads have the video.

What's the other thread? :???:

News Credits: 22 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:59 pm

Oh never mind. I thought your link was to a thread just for the Youtube video. So the video is posted in this thread. At least twice.

News Credits: 1235 · Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:22 pm

ILMVisualFX has uploaded their latest behind the scenes video for Transformers: Age of Extinction. This time they explore the making of the Knightship. Check out the video embedded below.

Creating the Knightship for "Transformers: Age of Extinction" was an immense challenge for the visual effects team due to it's massive scale. In fact, the Knightship is over five times larger than the worm-like drilling robot that appeared in "Dark of the Moon" which had previously held the record at ILM for most complex model.

Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:48 pm

that 3d rendering of the ship spinning around looks like a giant hand
maybe its unicrons hand.............

News Credits: 22 · Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:54 am

I really hope we get a lot more of this stuff in the upcoming film instead of humans.

News Credits: 668 · Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:56 pm

According to Deadline, an industry trade website, Transformers: Age Of Extinction was the clear winner of 2014, having the largest box office take of the year, it even beat out other big greats such as American Sniper and The Lego Movie!

2014 wasn't the strongest box office year, movies didn't sell as well as they had in past years and the economy has been rough on a lot of people, so frivolous spending such as going to the movies (which can be incredibly expensive) is out of the question for some, if not many.

With this in mind, seeing Age Of Extinction take the number one spot is awesome for us Transformer fans because the brand is still alive and fresh, even with new and casual fans as well old school who've been here since the beginning. With more Transformers success, the more Transformers toys and series we'll get and that's always a good thing.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Transformers: Age Of Extinction turned in a $245M domestic gross, did $545M foreign and another $301M China (Paramount kept $75 million of that), for a total of $1.09 billion. That is just short of the last installment, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, which grossed $1.12B to become the first Transformers to crack the billion dollar gross mark.

You can read the full article and see the rest of the staggering numbers over at Deadline, here, and when you're done come on back to the forums and share your thoughts on this big news!

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

News Credits: 37 · Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:00 pm

A well deserved victory.

Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:09 pm

very hard movie to finish in one sitting. worst of the 4

News Credits: 1 · Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:28 pm

Best movie since the first one. Love Age Of Extinction

Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:13 pm

i thought it was the "just right" movie of the bunch.....

okay i just said that because those above me claimed it the worst and then another the best. i wanted to three little bears-it-up!!!

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:15 pm

...I love the three posts above me, shows some of the opposite attitudes with this film. I would like to see a breakdown showing the amount it got in each territory, is there a link and I've missed it?

Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:53 pm

i know that the story for these movies is never going to be anything special.. so, my only real complaint is the way the human built transformers transformed. that morphing that they did where they floated around was awful, it really lost some of the magic of what transformers are. i really hope they get rid of that **** for the next one.. something tells me they won't though.

News Credits: 37 · Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:53 pm

TimothyR wrote:i know that the story for these movies is never going to be anything special.. so, my only real complaint is the way the human built transformers transformed. that morphing that they did where they floated around was awful, it really lost some of the magic of what transformers are. i really hope they get rid of that **** for the next one.. something tells me they won't though.

They're supposed to be abominations. They're made by humans. They aren't meant to be natural "Transformers." They're drones.