The 2007 Transformers Could Not Be Made Today

Thirty six hours to render one frame of the alley. Seven hundred and sixty eight frames in the shot. Why the 2007 Transformers looks heavier than the one ILM made ten years later, in ILM's own numbers. A Transformers video essay on why the first film, Transformers (2007), directed by Michael Bay with Steven Spielberg pushing him to keep the computer work to the robots, still looks heavier than the sequels. It breaks down how Industrial Light and Magic built Optimus Prime and the robots out of about six thousand photographs of real car parts, animated every transformation by hand for one camera angle, and lit each machine into real plates shot at White Sands, Hoover Dam and downtown Los Angeles. Then it follows the drift from practical plates to CGI film by film through Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dark of the Moon (2011), Age of Extinction (2014) and The Last Knight (2017), in the words of ILM's Scott Farrar and the artists who made them. Every number comes from ILM's staff on the record, the production notes and the films themselves. Chapters 0:00 Thirty Six Hours 0:56 Heavier 1:37 Loud and Dumb 2:41 The Technical Case 3:41 One. the Machines 4:49 The Transformation 6:00 Two. the Plates 7:08 The Miniature 7:48 The Plate Pushes Back 9:02 Three. the Cost 10:15 Four. the Drift, 2009 11:09 2011 11:57 2014 12:58 2017 14:00 What Was Lost 15:07 Their Own Sentences 15:50 The Answer 16:55 Sign Off More at Cutscene HQ:    / @watch-cutscene   #Transformers #VFX #MichaelBay #FilmAnalysis