“We had put an actual geo mesh under Sentinel’s face to rig it with shapes to drive the facial animation,” explains ILM lead creature TD Jacob Buck. On the previous Transformers film, Dark of the Moon, ILM had animated the character of Sentinel Prime with a high degree of facial expression. That extra control extended in particular to facial animation, where existing ILM rigging tech was expanded upon to help the process. With more robots to animate – and some like Optimus Prime with multiple body styles and multiple levels of damage seen as the movie progresses – ILM looked to give more control to its 60-plus animation team on Age of Extinction, led by animation supervisor Scott Benza. Ramping up on robot animation Optimus Prime has four different configurations throughout the film and was made up of 2.7 million vertices and 6,732 pieces. In this article fxguide explores ILM’s new challenges on the Michael Bay film, from ramping up on robot facial animation, to the new KSI-bot ‘hypno-transformations’, to creating the dinobots, crafting the enormous effects simulations as Hong Kong is ripped apart and building vast spaceship interiors.įor more on Age of Extinction, check out our in-depth fxpodcast with ILM’s Scott Farrar and Pat Tubach. Our work is about 90 minutes worth of the movie.” It was IMAX and 3D so you’re rendering twice as much at least. It was the largest crew I’ve ever had – 500 people. ILM visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar describes the show as the “heaviest data wrangling picture I’ve ever done, the largest in ILM’s history. If the settings on my white noise machine were “ocean waves,” “rain,” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” I’d pick "Transformers: Age of Extinction" every time and enjoy a great night’s rest.With three Transformers films already under visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic’s belt, Age of Extinction still managed to be eclipse them all in terms of effects shots, shooting locations, crew size, stereo delivery and sheer scale. There are so many explosions, it almost lulls you to sleep. This movie’s appetite for destruction is so relentless, it’s boring. Bay also loves to blow things up, so much so that his movies are often referred to as disaster porn, which is almost an insult to porn. Indeed, this movie is essentially just one long money shot. It’s the most impressively rendered of the four Transformers movies so far, and the first three also looked great. This is the part where I write something nice: "Transformers: Age of Extinction" looks great. Whatever his motivation, it was the only relatable moment for me, because, OH MY GOD, this is a bad movie. Are you kidding me, Michael Bay?įor More ABC News Movie Reviews, Click HereĪbout three days, six hours and 23 minutes into "Transformers: Age of Extinction"(it seemed that long I didn’t consult a calendar), Stanley Tucci’s character, Joshua Joyce, an inventor who’s cracked the Transfomers’ genome, screams, “OH MY GOD!” I’m not sure if he’s screaming because of the size of the alien ship hovering overhead or because he’s angry with himself for participating in this film. Cade, a strong white male, threatens the female African-American real estate agent with a baseball bat as she reminds him he’s six months behind on his mortgage payments. Later, he grows furious when a realtor drops by uninvited, clients in tow, to show his farm. Apparently, we’re supposed to feel bad for Cade because his little baby is all grown up and has a great rear end. That’s a Posterior Point-of-View shot, from behind Peltz, who at that moment is barely wearing very short denim shorts. Within a few minutes of introducing the Yeagers, Bay treats us to a PPOV. Here’s how Bay attempts to elicit audience sympathy for his main character. When the secret CIA task force run by Kelsey Grammer’s Harold Attinger comes calling, Cade, Tessa and the unwelcome addition of Tessa’s boyfriend, Shane (Jack Reynor), quickly ally with Optimus Prime to find the surviving Autobots, so director Michael Bay can destroy Chicago again, and Shanghai, too. That truck turns out to be the chief Autobot, Optimus Prime, who’s now a fugitive from humanity. Seriously in debt and at risk of losing his farm property, Cade makes a life-changing decision when he buys the remains of an 18-wheeler truck for practically nothing, in hopes of selling its parts to pay the bills. Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager, a failed inventor, widower and single dad of gorgeous 17-year-old Tessa (Nicola Peltz). It’s a few years after the Transformers laid waste to Chicago in 2011’s "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." In an effort to make sure it never happens again, the government is fighting a secret war against the remaining Transformers, including the ones on our side, the Autobots. Here’s a plot synopsis for "Transformers: Age of Extinction." As if it matters.
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