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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)
hot rod 907 wrote:Weta always looks real, but only when set in a real world setting.
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?
dragons wrote:are weta and ilm working togeather or is it differnt company alll togeather.?
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.
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
kjeevah wrote:such silliness, come on, how many of you actually know anything about it.. sweeping statements like 'ilm is good at robots weta is good at organic stuff' are just silly
Zuko wrote:kjeevah wrote:such silliness, come on, how many of you actually know anything about it.. sweeping statements like 'ilm is good at robots weta is good at organic stuff' are just silly
Do you have proof otherwise? That's what each group tends to work on so of course they'll be typecast as such.
AbsumZer0 wrote:Zuko wrote:kjeevah wrote:such silliness, come on, how many of you actually know anything about it.. sweeping statements like 'ilm is good at robots weta is good at organic stuff' are just silly
Do you have proof otherwise? That's what each group tends to work on so of course they'll be typecast as such.
ILM does a ton of organic stuff. Far more than WETA probably, although WETA has only been around since '87 and their digital offshoot since '93. I'm sure WETA will add more robots to their credits in time but you have to remember WETA has only been a major player in the film industry since the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Before that they were pretty much relegated to syndicated television.
Examples of ILM's organic work:
-all Star wars films
-Eragon
-Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3
-The Chronicles of Narnia
-Mars Attacks
-Fire In the Sky
-Van Helsing
-the Hulk
-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
-Signs
-Harry Potter films
-Jurassic Park 1-3
-The Mummy, The Mummy Returns
-The Mask, Son of the Mask
-Men in Black 1 and 2
-Jumanji
-Congo
-Spawn
etc.
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Ironhidensh wrote:I thought Weta did Narnia?
AbsumZer0 wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:I thought Weta did Narnia?
You're half-right. Both WETA and ILM worked on The Chronicles of Narnia, similar to the way they both worked on Eragon.
WETA Workshop (which is a seperate entity from WETA Digital) did the costumes, prosthetics, sets, etc. and designed/sculpted the maquettes that were the basis of the CGI creatures.
ILM used those maquettes as the basis of their cgi models and did all the animation and rendering.
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