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- db0255, on 10/11/2007, -3/+37Transformers had the best CGI effects I've seen in a long time.
On a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 9. For comparison, the Harry Potter Quidditch matches get a 1.5.
Now, if we could have only gotten a better plot...That way we don't have to cringe when Thundercats, Power Rangers, and Duck Tales all come out on the big screen. - spearce, on 10/11/2007, -7/+23i thought transformers was much much better then what i was expecting. i really enjoyed it.
- wenzor, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18Whys everyone complain about the plot? Its a movie based on a cartoon based on robots from space...you really want a better plot?
- MajorPaine, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15Excellent! Now I know who to punch in the nuts for this!!
Just kidding (mostly) -- I quite liked the movie, and while I got used to the "new" design of the transformers, they still felt MUCH more machine than they did in the old cartoon series -- and I still hate seeing Optimus' lips!!! - hydroplane, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13So thats why Frenzy in Transformers looked so much like a leftover buzzdroid from Revenge of the Sith.
- MrDandy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9While I can really truly appreciate the talent it took to make such ambitious and complex designs, he definitely earns his pay and respect on that level. But I felt that the designs were ugly, confusing to look at and definitely not in the spirit of the Transformers or any sense of Japanese design.
Also, I didn't care for the overuse of facial movement for the robots. You don't need much, if any facial animation identify with a character. Most of the new TFs had not only lips, but eyebrows and eyelids. Just look at the IronGiant, who could only move his jaw and narrow his eyes. Or Johnny-5 who could only move his visor flaps. Or R2 and C3PO who couldn't even do that. Or even HAL 9000, which was just a glowing red eye, but was shot in an ominous way and had a script full of character. True emotion is created by well-written characters and sometime less is more. - SenorCardgage74, on 11/11/2007, -4/+12The designs were awful.
Unfocused, busy piles of blurry *****.
No personality.
Yeah, the CGI was great. The piles of ***** did looke like piles of ***** that actually existed in real space. - kendra82, on 10/11/2007, -8/+16That's wild! Here are some cool transformer facts i dugg earlier--
http://www.thegamegods.net/2007/07/11/ten-transformer-facts-you-never-knew/ - iEnigma, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Power Rangers came out on the big screen a while ago.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0106064/ - techlinks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5To me the Autobots looked generally okay. But the Decepticons...tut, tut, they all look the damn same! Big honkin piles of steaming silver crap.
Although I really did quite like the movie. I can't wait for the sequels, because I am sure there will be more robots! Yay! - Knobee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I was expecting a steaming pile, based on the "reviews" on a movie site.
I actually enjoyed the movie. Sure, the "plot" was pretty obvious and it worked.
It was fun. It was loud. It was shiny and it was Transformers. Rock on! - DephexTwin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You are alone in this.
- wenzor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3yes....when i closed the window i thought the comment didnt stick...thanks for stating that twice.
- chubbybubba, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4This dude is awesome... but lets be honest... he just remade for the american audience what Japan artists have been doing since the 1980s.
- ampersand2001, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9so THIS is the guy we get to blame for the ***** models.
THANKS ***** MODEL MAKING GUY!! - weedancer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2alex ill take guys that will never get laid for 500
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+9that guy is awesome
- Ebulating, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3To all those who bitch about the new designs, realize how stupid the cartoon design would have looked on screen. The old look was mostly done for ease of drawing. The designers of this movie had a much harder problem to solve, namely to design a transformer that actually was 3D and had to plausible fold in 3D. Besides, I always thought the old designs were WAY too boxy and awkward looking.
- DuctTape31, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Love the movie, much better than i had expected or feared. My only problem now is that most of the Hasbro toys look like junk, the new character designs haven't been translated well into the toys at all, which is understandable given their complexity but also sad.
- somenice, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3agree, they look way too busy and curvy
- SambekZX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I beg to differ:
http://xs74.xs.to/pics/06133/optimus_1_full.jpg - techlinks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3MrDandy, you have some of the best arguments I have seen on digg, ever.
carlvjack, you have some the the worst arguments I have seen on digg, ever. - Syric, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3IMO, having them be more "machine-like" was a definite plus. Better than having them look like toys. These guys are super advanced alien robots; they should be complex.
- MrTsLoveChild, on 10/11/2007, -6/+8this guy is obviously a digital pimp...supremely talented
but...
these designs SUCKED ASS. way to busy and overly-complicated. no thought about how they'd look in motion - especially michael bay's signature shaky cam *****.
they make cool portfolio pieces, but they failed miserably on screen. - dackerman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This man is a genius. Dugg because I'm a CG major.
- Roagie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yeah, but don't forget... this IS a michael bay movie. You're not gonna get that kinda script.
- Sparticuz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1and we hope it never does again...
- azntiger1000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Some people just have one crazy imagination that works for them and lets other people enjoy their works.
- gopher043, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Be honest with yourself. Would a teenage boy rather have a VW Bug or a Camaro?
The VW Bug is a crap car that only chicks and effeminite guys buy. Look around at who drives the VW Bug. Barricade would have laughed in Bumblebee's face if he saw him pull up looking like that. - fullphaser, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Dugg because Jaeger is the one who did the Akira Class.
- coldskool, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3They are certainly detailed but I wouldnt call them over-designed
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Pretty much every poster I see that says the movie blows always just say it sucks and ends the discussion there. They are right, everybody else is wrong, if you say otherwise, you're a fanboi/part of the groupthink. I'm not saying this movie was the best out there, but when people just go"it sucks, dunt go c it lol!!!", you're not really changing anybody's opinion on the subject matter, you're being a jackass troll. Bring discussion to the table on why it is the worst movie you have seen in your life.
- Endeavour3d, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1FYI, Alex Jaeger is the man mostly responsible for putting together the battle in Star Trek First Contact, as well as helping design many of the ships.
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Uh oh, the Digg groupthink opinion on the Transformers movie is positive, and to Digg everyone down who says anything bad about it. Sorry but, Digg me down, the Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time, and the worst movie I've seen all year. It somehow even managed to be worse than Spider-Man 3.
- chenbot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3"10. The Transformers is the name of a line of toys designed and produced by toy companies Takara in Japan, and Hasbro in the United States, from 1984 onward."
I feel like this doesn't qualify as a fact people never knew. - bdub92, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3So your saying it was...more than meets the eye??
- jatin327, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So this is the lunatic who ruined what glory could have been bestowed upon the Cybertronians....
he should be drug out into the street and transformed into a pile of organic matter.... - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1mirror: http://features.cgsociety.org.nyud.net:8080/story_custom.php?story_id=4150
page 2: http://features.cgsociety.org.nyud.net:8080/story_custom.php?story_id=4150&page=2 - MCBowelmovement, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5Now that I know that the ability to take stuff that was already cool, and proceed to ruin it with an over-designed crapfest is a marketable skill, I've found a new path in life. All thanks to this wizard of the wacom!
- manicleek, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3maybe you should watch older transformers stuff, then you would realise that they could transform into any machine in the environment around them.
in other words, there is no "wrong" looking transformer - manicleek, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2they're not over designed, MCBowelmovement just doesn't know a damn thing about design process
- cheesypizza, on 07/22/2009, -1/+1lol ok
- shishihenge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I agree, for me Decepticons used to be cooler than the autobots... at least when I watched the first generation.
- DJMajickman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I may be alone in this but I didn't know they were still making them.
- Johan007, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Lovely website. Think the proper link is here: http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4150&page=2 becuase the page has moved to page 2. There are also some Transformers movie clips here: http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=565
- Konstrict, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I enjoyed the movie a lot. But I still stay the robots were a bit confusing looking. I wish they looked more like this (awesome test animation for Optimus Prime):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol49i2OUM_k - rkritzer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The fact that transformers even exist blows my mind. I just can't imagine how hard it is to transform a truck into a Optimus Prime. It's like...America's origami.
- akiraraider, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0If you actually read the article, it never says that he designed ALL of the robots, just the transformations and some head designs. The LA art department did the body designs. In the credits Jaeger is listed as the Visual Effects Art Director for ILM, not the Production Designer ,Jeff Mann. So not all the blame (if you're a hater) or credit falls in one place as far as the designs go. I thought the designs were a little too busy, but even Jaeger said that in the article...
read... it's the little black symbols next to the pictures - akiraraider, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0If you actually read the article, it never says that he designed ALL of the robots, just the transformations and some head designs. The LA art department did the body designs. In the credits Jaeger is listed as the Visual Effects Art Director for ILM, not the Production Designer ,Jeff Mann. So not all the blame (if you're a hater) or credit falls in one place as far as the designs go. I thought the designs were a little too busy, but even Jaeger said that in the article...
read... it's the little black symbols next to the pictures - akiraraider, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0If you actually read the article, it never says that he designed ALL of the robots, just the transformations and some head designs. The LA art department did the body designs. In the credits Jaeger is listed as the Visual Effects Art Director for ILM, not the Production Designer ,Jeff Mann. So not all the blame (if you're a hater) or credit falls in one place as far as the designs go. I thought the designs were a little too busy, but even Jaeger said that in the article...
read... it's the little black symbols next to the pictures -
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