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

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

HD version

Transformers Trailer Regular version

here’s the youtube television trailer:

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)

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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Here’s another behind the scenes transformers featurette. nothing new here; but very cool none the less.

Do you have trouble with youtube or google embedded videos posted on this site? can’t hear a damn thing?

here’s the fix:

go to ccleaner.com and download ccleaner, when you run it make sure you de-select everything and only select the Adobe Flash Player under Applications > Multimedia > Adobe Flash Player.

The 3rd “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie opening on May 25, 2007, here’s a little featurette:

check out the new “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” movie trailer up at apple.com

this is the large file at 1080p

Silver Surfer trailer

Wow, these digital domain visual fx show reels are so damn sweet, it just shows the dedication and the attention to detail that these folks have.

I didn’t see any transformers sweetness, however these are just badass.

DIGITAL DOMAIN 2007 MONTAGE

AUTOMOTIVE REEL (2007)

CHARACTER ANIMATION REEL (2007)

if you can see this, it means that it is fixed! yuss!

Update! ok seems like it’s fixed now. I had to delete all the files and re-install wordpress.

this new server is running php 5.2.1 and MySQL 5.0.37