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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. Re:bad title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Aye; Pirates is a porno flick!

  2. Re:Links don't work FF/Linux by aweinert · · Score: 2, Informative

    Works fine on Ubuntu w/ FF.

  3. Re:Links don't work FF/Linux by pshuke · · Score: 2, Informative

    While I can agree that flash-only sites are evil, you could always try the flash beta if you're desperate for the content. Works for me.

  4. Re:I could tell it was all CG effects by mojodamm · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, no. Having "grown up" in Southern California, whenever I saw the oracle, I thought of the Gypsy fortune-teller from the original Pirates of the Caribbean, which I believe was the intent.

    --
    I'd rather be an ignorant moron than an anonymous coward.
  5. Re:no luck here with flash on Linux by triso · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't bother looking if you're on Linux. The ILM page sent me to Adobe to get Flash, but even the newest version of Flash offered for Linux does not satisfy the requirements of the ILM page. The Linux beta of version 9 is available from: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
  6. Re:I could tell it was all CG effects by EvilIdler · · Score: 2, Informative

    >All the characters miraculously appear in some green-tinged CG swamp where the voodoo lady is
    >always up and waiting for guests. Almost as if she was, say... an Oracle??
    It worked in The Secret of Monkey Island.

  7. Re:I didn't notice a lot of special effects... by NFNNMIDATA · · Score: 2, Informative

    What I didn't realize and I guess a lot of people don't is that all of Davy Jones' crew was CG except Turner's father. I would have sworn Davy Jones was an amazing mask with some CG touchups, but they actually CG'd over Bill Nighy entirely, even the eyes. Movie was pretty so-so but it's worth it to see again just for the mutant crew.

  8. Re:I could tell it was all CG effects by Darthmalt · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the swamp wasn't CG. If you watch the making of you see them really in the set. In fact several things that I assumed were CG turned out to be real.

  9. Re:I could tell it was all CG effects by szap · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ron Gilbert, designer of Monkey Island, commenting on the similarities between Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean on his blog: http://grumpygamer.com/8123463