Terminator Salvation – CGSociety

“We drew more on the work ILM had done on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Iron Man’ than on ‘Terminator 3′,” he says. To make the CG animation effects appear grounded in reality, the film relied heavily on ILM’s iMoCap technology which was developed by John Knoll for Pirates. Found through: My RSS Reader


Terminator Salvation VFX supervisor Charlie Gibson

… I see three different directions for VFX. There’s the super high def end, you know, certain directors like Jim Cameron and David Fincher and Gore Verbinski… … then you have the second tier, and I think that, as computing power becomes less expensive and more people are trained in the art of visual effects, [...]


Audio Interview: Terminator Salvation VFX Director Charles Gibson

Remember there’s a lot of makeup in Terminator 1. Whenever you have to do makeup on an actor, expensive makeup, you usually have to do a life cast on him, so that you can build pieces that will attach to his face. So they had that, which was a tremendous coup for us. Found through: [...]


Terminator Salvation Exclusive 4 Minute Clip

Source: Apple trailers