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ILM Showcases "Dead Man's Chest" Effects Work

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-with-the-fishies dept.

bonniegrrl writes "The work of ILM folks (including VFX supervisor John Knoll) is being showcased in a site just launched to explore the mind-blowing visual effects of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (heavy Flash). Interactive clips at the site allow you to peel back layers of animation to see what ILM had to start with before transforming actors wearing tracking markers into astonishingly real characters. Test your effects awareness by making the call: what's real and what's ILM, rotate turntable models of the animated characters, and download some goodies." The submitter also claims that there are a few Easter Eggs of footage in there somewhere.

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  1. Holy Ad, Batman! by Johnso · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How the hells is this news for nerds or stuff that matters?

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  2. Re:I could tell it was all CG effects by nine-times · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, was that the problem with the new ones? I thought it was that they had hired a different alien to play Yoda-- you know, like Darrin in Bewitched? But you're saying that the first Yoda was a tiny man in a "rubber" suit? Wow, those suits are really terrific, because I could never tell.

    Well.... live and learn, I guess. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't really a robot from the future. What kind of material are these "rubber" suits made out of, anyway?

    P.S.- I'm sure Lucas will be very please to hear that the problem with the new Star Wars movies wasn't his piss poor writing, bad direction, or retarded casting choices. The big problem was that you could tell that not all the aliens were made of rubber.