Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of 'Transformers Age of Extinction'

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.

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.

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?

So now 2 threads have the video.

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.

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

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!



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

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!!!