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ILM Showcases "Dead Man's Chest" Effects Work
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kdawson
on Sat Dec 16, 2006 02:53 PM
from the playing-with-the-fishies dept.
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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bad title (Score:1)
Re:bad title (Score:5, Interesting)
I work part time in a sex toy store. We can barely keep the Pirates movie in stock. It is a three-disc set with an HDDVD disc and then the DVD movie disc and I assume a behind the scenes DVD disc. We have been selling it for over six months.
Supposedly the movie was good enough (better than most b-movies) that they removed the explicit stuff and made an unrated version that can be viewed by those under 18 depending on where you live. We, do not allow those under 18 to enter our store, but the local Family Video has the X rated version in the back room, while in the main area with all the other movies you can get the unrated version. It probably sits on the shelf right next to Pirates of the Caribbean.
It is always funny to have someone tell me the movie sucks and they ask why we would sell a non porn film in our store. It is then that I inform them that they only watched the non-X version and that they should watch it again with all of the action.
I still say the greatest scene is about midway through the movie (which is 2 hours long) where they are showing a lesbian scene. The two girls are doing their thing on the floor while about 6-9 pirates stand around occasionally yelling in unison "Arggh" or "God save the wenches". One of the funniest moments I have seen in porn in years.
Now all of you can go back to discussing the tech aspects of the site in the blurb. Although the site is interesting I think it is a little short on details, but I guess that is what a 'behind the scenes' disc is for when you purchase or rent the movie.
Mind-Blowing (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday December 12 2004, @04:18AM)
I don't know about mind-blowing, but I do distinctly remember quite a bit of "Snot"-blowing special FX at the end of PotC:DMC.
I didn't notice a lot of special effects... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://offthegrid.1337hax0r.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 18 2006, @12:56PM)
Way to destroy the movie magic.... (Score:3, Interesting)
10:15 Moviewreck
'...fun free footage of some whiny voiced special effects blubberbag in a Perfect Storm baseball cap taking us through a wireframe build of the spectacular finale again and again and again and again until the entire sequence is inorexably rendered so mundane and familiar the experience of finally seeing it... .. feels more like a lunchtime repeat of Knot's Landing than the white knuckle climax it would have been before the slickarsed marketing fucks responsble for tossing together this say-nothing advertorial assault on your dignity spoiled it all as part of their ongoing quest to bully the world into galloping down to the nerest multiplex to gawp at tits and explosions like the oblivious victims of a dystopian stupidity virus.'
All that Glimmers (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/~Doc%20Ruby/journal | Last Journal: Thursday March 31 2005, @01:48PM)
If you download Keef, realize that the music biz learned a long time ago that he's impossible to delete.
It's "Captain" Jack Sparrow to you! (Score:2, Insightful)
Shark-jumping (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/strawberryfrog/ | Last Journal: Wednesday April 27 2005, @06:28AM)
The whole movie was just way over the top.
no luck here with flash on Linux (Score:1)
bonniegrrl writes... (Score:2)
(http://www.celardore.net/)
Amazing work, but... (Score:1)
(http://himeringo.com/)
sites should stick with Flash 7 content (Score:2)
Re:Links don't work FF/Linux (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I could tell it was all CG effects (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://neilmcallister.com/)
The first PotC movie was great fun, but the second one fell way short of the mark. And one of the main reasons was because they spent so much time showcasing effects and so little on story. I mean, the end... WTF?? Does that make any kind of sense to anybody? Are you really waiting on the edge of your seat to find out how that was possible or did you just roll your eyes?
All the scenes on Davy Jones' ship looked fake. Completely fake. It was as if the characters walked off the real world and into this alternate world where every single person or object is made out of CG. It felt claustrophobic. Maybe that was part of the point
Similarly, the scenes with the voodoo witch lady. Wow, way to come up with a cheap way to move the plot forward in between action scenes. 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?? Then we leave again and it's back to the rest of the movie.
It's the same thing people are always saying about videogames these days. Too much money spent on the look, not enough on "game play" -- or, in this case, giving you an entertaining movie to watch.
And what is the deal with making every movie three hours long these days? I'm sorry, but there was not enough movie in King Kong to last three hours. There wasn't enough in PotC: Dead Man's Chest, there wasn't enough in Casino Royale
Re:I could tell it was all CG effects (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.hylobatidae.org/minerva/)
Re:I could tell it was all CG effects (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.nine-times.org/)
Re:Links don't work FF/Linux (Score:2, Informative)
It's the weekend, calm down. (Score:2)
(http://www.lqx.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday November 08 2003, @10:41PM)
Re:Links don't work FF/Linux (Score:2)