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News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:41 am

Lets take a ride into the past. With Transformers: Dark Of The Moon still a month and a half away, Industrial Light & Magic has uploaded a couple new featurettes for the first Transformers live action film. These videos show off the magic that ILM performs.

Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor, Scott Farrar, discusses the effects work on "Transformers."

The first video talks about lighting and photographing Transformers scenes. ILM has disabled embedding so the video can be seen here.

Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor, Scott Farrar, on shooting dirty with Michael Bay and miniature work on "Transformers."

The next video involves Optimus Prime and Megatron flying through a building mid battle. Learn what all that was involved in the making of this scene using green screen and miniatures. ILM has disabled embedding so the video can be seen here.

by **OlivusPrime** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:13 am

Very interesting. Makes me realise just how amazing the robot effects are in the films.

by **BATTOUSAIXD** » Wed May 18, 2011 11:22 am

Very cool. It's amazing how real they make this stuff seem and how much work goes into it. I loved this battle between Optimus and Megatron; I think it was done perfectly.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Tue May 24, 2011 1:49 pm

ILM has uploaded another behind the scenes video from the past to their ILMVisualFX channel. This time it's a look at the VFX of Revenge Of The Fallen. They discuss Michael Bays shooting style, and the work and detail that went into bringing Devastator to life. The video can be seen here, however it's been embedded below.

ILM Visual Effects Supervisor discusses the visual effects of Michael Bay's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

by **starwarrior1227** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:02 pm

i still wonder one thing even after all these years of enterviews with the crew of the transformers movies:

when and how did michael think of the idea of having a live action transformers movie?
and if michael didn't who did?

by **starwarrior1227** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:04 pm

And another thing, thought dream works did the cgi for the tf movie franchise.

News Credits: 4 · by **Swiftknife24** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:15 pm

Goes to show; say what you like about the films, at least the VFX are top notch! (Of course it wasn't just ILM) Hard work done by all and to all a very well done! :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 2 · by **NemesisMonkeySupreme** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:04 pm

RotF? Way to be current ILM. Even without his immediate direction, all things Lucas still manage to recycle the past as the present… I-)

by **manofsteel2397** » Tue May 24, 2011 7:42 pm

starwarrior1227 wrote:i still wonder one thing even after all these years of enterviews with the crew of the transformers movies:

when and how did michael think of the idea of having a live action transformers movie?
and if michael didn't who did?

Steven Speilberg is the one who originaly brought this idea to life i still remember when he and dreamworks pictures announced that they were going to do a live action film.

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Tue May 24, 2011 8:21 pm

my problem is, where are all the cool characters going? Jolt, gone, or so it's said, Twins, out the window, Barricade, POOF! Gone like the wind..... Let's hope they at least bring barricade back into this.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Wed May 25, 2011 2:12 pm

BeastProwl wrote:my problem is, where are all the cool characters going? Jolt, gone, or so it's said, Twins, out the window, Barricade, POOF! Gone like the wind..... Let's hope they at least bring barricade back into this.

I'm mad Jolt and Barricade are out, and glad the Twins are.

Jolt was killed in the comics so he's out.

I forget what happened to Barricade :-?