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Art Director Alex Jaeger talks to Cgsociety about his character designs for the blockbuster movie “Transformers”.

Transformers’ Art Director Alex Jaeger’s
Career on the Fast Track

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Now that Fantastic Four ROTSS is out in theaters and it’s a pretty good movie, come and take an inside look at the dodge fantasticar!

Here’s the dodge fantasticar:

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The Fox hit series “24″ was back in true form when the 6th edge-of-your-seat season started out with a bang. Valencia, California, north of Los Angeles, was blown off the map in a nuclear explosion. The heart stopping action continued in grand “24″ style as terrorists not only threatened the complete destruction of major US cities but managed to blow up homes, offices and even the president throughout the harrowing day. Ending in a grand finale at an off shore oil platform, Jack Bauer and his crew barely escaped with their lives as F-18 fighter jets bore down on the site and launched the final attack. Emmy award-winning visual effects houses Zoic Studios and Eden FX contributed the stunning effects for this season.

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As most moviegoers now know, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” contains a 20-minute climactic sea battle in a massive maelstrom. There is said to be more visual effects in this one sequence than are found in many VFX-driven feature films in their entirety.

The big challenge in this “Pirates” sequence — and the new film — was the water.

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here are 3 featurettes

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Imaginary forces put together this teaser for the second installment of National Treasure.

The 1:40-minute teaser, art-directed by Sean Koriakin of Imaginary Forces, opens on a CG 19th century globe.

The viewer is taken into the globe where script type – from the 18 missing pages of Booth’s diary – is revealed.

Gates (Cage) provides the voiceover, telling the story as though we are seeing the adventure in his head.

Through his deductive thought process, we follow the type where highlighted clues and symbols lead to animated images of President Lincoln and his assassination, and to various landmarks in Paris, London and the US where this global journey takes Gates and his team.

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Hmmm, this is a supposedly “leaked” version of a studio trailer that shows optimus prime speaking, it looks authentic however, in the way the actors gawp at prime leads me to believe that this is just a fan made Transformer trailer.

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Cgsociety has an awesome 3 page article featuring the making of Spiderman 3. includes: some of the effects and techniques they used on the film, the tools they used to create the sandman, and how the evil goo effect was conceived. Warning there are some spoilers.

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SpiderMan 3 Visual Fx

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A new transformers trailer is up on yahoo, shows some autobot vs decepticon action.

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THE VES 50

1. Star Wars (1977)
2. Blade Runner (1982)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. The Matrix (1999)
5. Jurassic Park (1993)
6. Tron (1982)
7. King Kong (1933)
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
9. Alien (1979)
10. The Abyss (1989)
11. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
12. Metropolis (1927)
13. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
14. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
15. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
16. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
18. Titanic (1997)
19. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
20. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
20. E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)
22. Toy Story (1995)
23. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
24. The Ten Commandments (1956)
25. The War of the Worlds (1953)
25. Forrest Gump (1994)
25. Citizen Kane (1941)
25 The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
25. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
30. The Terminator (1984)
31. Aliens (1986)
32. Mary Poppins (1964)
33. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
34. Forbidden Planet (1956)
35. Babe (1995)
36. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
36. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
38. King Kong (2005)
39. Planet of the Apes (1968)
40. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
41. Jaws (1975)
41. Ghostbusters (1984)
43. Sin City (2005)
44. Superman: The Movie (1978)
45. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
46. The Lost World (1925)
46. Return of the Jedi (1983)
48. What Dreams May Come (1998)
49. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
50. Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1958)
50. The Fifth Element (1997)

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I hope to be seeing some badass games from these people soon.

A budget of about $25 million may not be much for director Michael Bay, maker of such mega-budget movies as “Armageddon” and “Pearl Harbor.”

But it’s enough to get him launched on a new passion: creating a video game that matches the quality of a feature film.

Bay’s first-person shooter game is part of a larger strategy to transform Digital Domain Inc., where he is now co-chairman, from one of Hollywood’s elite special-effects houses into a full-blown production studio, capitalizing on the convergence between games and feature films

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