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Todd VaziriThe absolutely dreadful Yahoo! Entertainment piece on "Mars Attacks!" (1996) confidently pushes bad information.
"The aliens themselves are all stop-motion creatures", NOPE, NOT RIGHT AT ALL - they're 100% computer graphics by ILM.
Thomas Sturm@tvaziri Has there ever been a good Making Of for Mars Attacks? I don't think I've ever seen anything about how the effects were done in that movie.
Shambolic Matter
@xorn @tvaziri The whole archive is all JPG scans of the original magazines held together with an unworkable html construct. [silent developer scream]
No wonder they stopped work on the iOS app that originally held the archive. It's actually much easier just to view the JPGs in sequence.
Thanks again for pointing this out - there's 40 years of CineFex to look through in those zip files! 😊
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@tvaziri I honestly thought they were all stop-motion when I watched (and absolutely LOVED) Mars Attacks! #GlennClose
JtsW@tvaziri This is nuts. I love the movie, but even at the time the fx work was not exactly seamless.
No idea how one could mistake these awkwardly shiny early stage cg creatures as puppets.
No idea how one could mistake these awkwardly shiny early stage cg creatures as puppets.
Vicente Perez@tvaziri Wow. Famously, Burton wanted stop motion but the budget did not allow for it, which sent him down the path of increasingly embracing excessive CGI for his movies.
Brian Grinter
Drew Pickard@tvaziri
I wonder if (younger) people who skipped the 'early CG' generation just never developed the ‘visual literacy' to be able to tell when something was CG vs not??
( . . . or maybe AI wrote this)
I wonder if (younger) people who skipped the 'early CG' generation just never developed the ‘visual literacy' to be able to tell when something was CG vs not??
( . . . or maybe AI wrote this)
Michael Edlund@tvaziri I’d love a podcast series similar to 50 mph but for everything about the making of Mars Attacks! A friend (who animated California raisins commercials back in the day) was hired on for alien stop motion animation before it was decided computer animation was the way to go. He stayed on the project though and he has some absolutely bonkers stories about the production.
Cristin Pescosolidowtf Yahoo!?
I was scheduled to work as a stop-motion animator on Mars Attacks! but then we had the plug pulled out from under us when the decision to go all CG was made.
I was bummed at the time, but ILM did a very good job of it.
Gavin Graham@tvaziri ironically, it's quite likely that it was a computer generated article...
Seth Worley@tvaziri this one… wow