in General, Tech

More cool VFX

I love stumbling across sites with amazing video clips. Some of these I found a while ago, others just tonight.

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/qt/Citroen_480.mov
-Great because you will never see a transformer do that. But the clip does prove that CG technology is probably capable of doing a Transformers movie now. The U.S. never gets the good commercials…

http://home.comcast.net/~themichaelsmith/VWHiRes.mpg
Another Transformers-esque clip. Particularly impressive given that its entirely amateur, not by a production house.

http://analogik.com/mm_rev_tetra.asp
(linked to page instead of video by their request)
-Again some of the better FX work I’ve seen. My current working theory is that if you combine CG with a handheld camera approach, it looks more realistic. Firefly did it, Battlestar Galactica does it currently, and so does this clip.

http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/581/
And lastly, this might look like FX but none were involved. It’s a commercial for the Honda Accord, and once again never aired in the U.S. But I read an interview with the director once and it is indeed all one shot, it took something like 25 tries to get right.