Did anyone else feel like they were watching stop motion at well most points with transformers on the screen ,but mainly the final fight?
Don't scare me....i poop easily
i thought Prime vs. the Fallen looked like stop motion.
Did anyone say they were thankful for me?
You essentially ARE watching stop-motion animation, they're just posing photorealistic digital models instead of physical armatures.
But, yeah, especially in theaters I definitely noticed a similar "strobing" effect here and there. I assume it's something to do with technical crap like frame rates or whatever.
Honestly, I actually kinda like it like that, too.
Makes me feel like I'm watching the hands-down FINEST work ever done by Ray Harryhausen, lol.
;)
How is it "essentially" stop-motion when the motion is not programmed frame by frame but rather based on physical motion therefore it is fluid motion not imitation motion?
eh? But I agree that the last fight looked weird, specially compared with the other Bay Transformer films
What I meant is that whether or not someone's physically moving an actual armature for each frame of film or instead manipulating the movements of a CGI model frame-by-frame, it's still basically the same process.
Although, given the fluidity of movement and deliberate blurring I probably should have described it better as Go-Motion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_motion
That's because a lot of the animation did not use any motion blur. Every frame (or rather the robots in the frame) is perfectly sharp which gives it the strobing effect due to movies only being 24 frames per second.
I'm not sure why this design choice was made. Maybe it was meant to make the shots look more impressive. Or maybe the complicated designs of the Transformers would be even harder to understand visually if all movement were blurred.
Yes, I clearly remember a few scenes where the CGI looked off in the theater and the same on DVD.
Here were a few more I noticed. And I noticed these on first viewing, so they really stood out to me:
-When the little decepticons "operate" on Shia. The little flying decepticon looked like really bad stop animation. And the part where one of them was hold his lips looked really bad.
-After Megatron stabs Prime in the forest. When Megatron drops Prime in the wide shot, it looks HORRIBLE. The CGI doesn't blend in at all. The color and lighting are WAY off. It's the shot right before Prime slowly falls down and the camera does a 90 degree angle.
I felt like they were just cutting corners in some parts of the movie. The editing felt that way as well. Motion blur does rack up rendering time.