Speed Racer's Visual FX Uncovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 5, 2008 @01:19AM from the hey-shannon-this-better-not-suck dept.

Marco Trezzini writes "View exclusive interactive samples of the digital building blocks behind the Speed Racer movie in VRMag's in-depth interviews with award-winning Matrix visual FX guru John Gaeta, Dennis Martin, Lubo Hristov, and Jake Morrison. Including Virtual Reality panoramas of the movie locations, turn tables of the mach 5 and 6, and many making of videos unveiling the secrets of the visual effects. Link to 'Speed Racer uncovered' and to John Gaeta's interview." The first time I saw the trailer for this movie, my jaw hit the floor. Nobody makes live action "Cartoons" that look like this. I guess that makes me believe there is no way the movie can be good.

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Re:Why the Instant Dismissal? by KlomDark · 2008-05-05 02:05 · Score: 4, Informative

They changed to the "humans as batteries" because they judged the average viewer coudn't comprehend the idea of "humans as co-processors" idea in the original story. So it got Hollywooded, and we are all slightly dumber for it having been changed to a "lowest common denominator" story. :(
Why I hate blockbusters and CGI-fests by elrous0 · 2008-05-05 02:33 · Score: 4, Informative

$100 million on the special effects
$40 million for the leading man and leading woman
$100,000 for the script

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