I believe everyone has seen the movie Transformers? The graphics are very awesome, and very immersive, but, the question is, How did they do such a thing? I have done motion capture with games before so, my idea is that, they do the same thing, with motion capture scenes and whatnot, and then put that to the graphical Transfomers. Of course, that's just movement, the stunning graphics are also hard to explain. Anybody have any ideas?
Ultimate graphics?
Having not seen the movie myself, I would take a wild guess and say CGI. Obviously, its pretty standard in films these days and very realistic now. 
Transformers almost certainly used CGI (computer generated imagery). That is pretty much the standard for movies these days. What is interesting is how flawlessly they can incorporate people into these scenes. Of course they usually shoot the actors on a greenscreen and then composite them into scenes, but they have to be careful to make the lighting match the 'background plate'. As a working one man video production company, I get a lot of the industry magazines, and many of them show how they do these exact scenes. Think of dozens of crew members working on the shoot, and then after the shoot several people working on the CGI on a VERY powerful computer or even a cluster. That's why these movies have a big budget. I've done some greenscreen stuff myself on a small scale, and even with DV, it turned out quite good, so I can at least begin to comprehend how this stuff is done, but believe me, it is a HUGE undertaking.
I don't know what it was, but I am thinking cgi. Even though whatever it was it was totally awesome.
Ray tracing and some really good animators.
Yeah, they used quite a bit of CGI in Transformers...
I do beleive they also did some ray tracing though.
I do beleive they also did some ray tracing though.
Transformers uses CGI but most importantly compositing (which is mixing real life film and fake renders) this is lots of fun and looks best when you can get a camera moving (like the new director of the Halo movie) and mix it with CGI. It looks cool because this is the hardist thing to do...
It also may use HDRI lighting, which makes everything 'fit' into a scene much nicer, its a long story but just google it and you will be on your way.
It also may use HDRI lighting, which makes everything 'fit' into a scene much nicer, its a long story but just google it and you will be on your way.
I don't know but what i do know is that the movie was shot flawlessly. Greenscreening was done so well and i could sware that those transformers were actually in the scene while filming.
| zakarykinnaird wrote: |
| Transformers uses CGI but most importantly compositing (which is mixing real life film and fake renders) this is lots of fun and looks best when you can get a camera moving (like the new director of the Halo movie) and mix it with CGI. It looks cool because this is the hardist thing to do...
It also may use HDRI lighting, which makes everything 'fit' into a scene much nicer, its a long story but just google it and you will be on your way. |
Yeah! Composite Lab Pro and Vision Lab Studio are excellent programs for that purpose and not even that expencive when compared to Adobe After Effects etc.
Check them out! www.fxhome.com
It need a massive production house to make films like transformers. It has a lot of VFx shots, the geometries and interaction are very complex too.
But generally to do that kind of film you'll need mocap, crazy animators that key-ed those transformations, global illumination to match the lighting of real scene, and a lot of particle effects to create realistic CGI.
But generally to do that kind of film you'll need mocap, crazy animators that key-ed those transformations, global illumination to match the lighting of real scene, and a lot of particle effects to create realistic CGI.
i have seen the movie transformers and yea the graphics for that movie is insane must of took them a real computer genuis to make that graphics
They are just really really really good at putting the people in the scenes. 
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