________________________________ "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write the things worth reading or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin
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I tell you, if I worked at WETA I'd be like "Oh jeeze! We just made the BEST fantasy warfare movie ever, and now we have to do it again, from scratch!?!"
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They wouldn't have to pay me minimum wage to work there. I would do it free if necessary.
________________________________ "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write the things worth reading or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin
Posts: 1950 | Location: Milkyway, the earth, USA, Arizona, Chandler | Registered: June 25, 2003
I never really understood why people think CGI looks better than actual make-up and effects. like the minotaur in that movie looks a billion times better than doing one out of CG.
but that trailer is so lying. ONLY IN THE MIND'S EYE??? HMMM I GUESS THIS SERIES IN 1988 WAS IMAGINARY!
Yeah. Reality always looks better than CG. Its a fact of life. LOTR pushed that boundary, in that I forgot Gollum was CG at parts (only parts) and a few other things were totally convincing, but I can't remember them now.
| PerryKroll.com | TRC | "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." Wodehouse
Posts: 5197 | Location: Tisch at New York University | Registered: June 03, 2003
Speaking of LOTR, Treebeard was a giant robot for many shots! That's incredible!
I'm always amazed at how good gollum looked. The only thing that bothered me about him was his big eyes. but I suppose after 100's of years of living in the dark, the eyes could evolve to that.
And that minotaur did look extraordinary. It really looked liek it was alive. Like I said before, they never cease to amaze me. The only make-up work in there that slightly botehred me was the cyclops. Its been my observation that hairy/slimy/scaly monsters always look better then those with human skin texture and tones.
________________________________ "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write the things worth reading or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin
Posts: 1950 | Location: Milkyway, the earth, USA, Arizona, Chandler | Registered: June 25, 2003
Yes! I saw the treebeard robot at the Boston MoS when they had the LOTR exhibit from New Zealand; all the WETA stuff is unbelievable. The costumes were there, and you could see the hand woven threads and nicks in the metal armor. And the wax model of dead Boromir was so real people were just standing and staring at it for minutes on end. His fingers had hair on them. I expected him to breath any minute. WETA is just amazing.
| PerryKroll.com | TRC | "If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." Wodehouse
Posts: 5197 | Location: Tisch at New York University | Registered: June 03, 2003
It was after looking at the waxthat the CG artists got the technique to make Gollums skin transluscent to show veins and the under layer of skin.
________________________________ "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write the things worth reading or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin
Posts: 1950 | Location: Milkyway, the earth, USA, Arizona, Chandler | Registered: June 25, 2003
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