In an interview with Scifi Wire, Industrial Light and Magic’s Scott Farrar reveals that the special effects heavy sequences of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, rendered in high definition for IMAX, nearly caused ILM’s rendering computers to break down. Indeed, after one overnight session, several machines “blew up” in a puff of smoke.
The interview also goes into detail about the creative process of the film and the challenges of producing the special effects – as well as the process of getting everything approved by Hasbro to ensure the designs could be made to work as toys.
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Angel Magnus
That's not as impressive as it sounds; ILM use Dells.
It's akin to Hasbro making all the Transformers figures out of gold plastic – sooner or later, it'll happen.
_Galvatron_
Your sig is awesome. I loved "Webworld", one of my favorite episodes.
Railguard
Well although not surprising that they melted but def. awesome!!!
MegaPrime33
What they're not telling you is that the computer imploded after doing the animation for Devastator's balls. Apparently the computer thought it was ridiculous too.
yakimets89
Hay
Not in this part of movie
Gingerchris
This would've never happened with blocky Transformers…
Still, I guess every little bit of 'this movie is so awesome things explode just by being associated with it' publicity helps. Just rendered one gold tooth too many this time.
thygriever
can't be sure if they're exaggerating but it would make sense as this movie has some of the craziest cgi ever made. i saw the movie and the detail on every robot was crazy. they definitely went all out this time
Optimus Matt
i have blown a monitor and it did smoke. and my video card has burnt me buy touching it.
guard convoy
not suprising, seeing as the amount of computing power it takes just to produce devastator (melted the insides of an computer) and considering the size of the movie itself (about 140-150 terrabytes deer gawd)
i do not doubt it, and seriously, i don't see how this is not plasible
alien
WOW~
ashion
I've seen a smoking computer…. 40+ degree day, computer was already on its last legs. Comp spontaniously shut down and i could smell something burning… opened the case had a small waft of smoke come out and one side of the case was blackened. Power supply had blown and taken the Main Board with it. It was warped something shocking.
But damn! Making them work so hard they burned themselves out!
username99
like the computers were trying to understand the plot at the same time and couldn't take it.
Gigatron_2005
I bet it was just the computers refusing to render that trash.
Nutcrusher
I can imagine that. It's like Pixar with Cars during the realistic waterfall sequence with particle physics rendering. That nearly killed them too.
kajobaldisimo
after seeing the movie last night, ya, i can believe this story…
Dran0n
Damn! They probably made it seem more impressive than it really was, but still.
Digilaut
Tee hee hee..it was a good one, though.
But now I will have to bash your brains in.
No seriously.
Anti Spark
I'm seeing this alot lately. People are not being given credit where it's due.
frenzyrumble
it's from an overload of special effects ILM…please learn your lesson this time.
frilly toothpick