Friday, March 4, 2022

Trailer: Spaz

This looks FANTASTIC.


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8 comments:

Rot said...

I still can't figure out why CGI effects have gotten so bad.
Like that T Rex in the first Jurassic Park was REAL to me ...and any of the effects (mostly in the night scenes) looked REAL. It was made in 1993.
The recent Jurassic Park films look awful in comparison. I'm going to assume it's smaller budgets and shorter production schedules... but, come on. It used to look pretty amazing.
Like Starship Troopers... those bugs looked real.

Revenant Manor said...

It is an incredibly aggravating and vexing situation; how has the technology and processing power advanced sooo much, while the results seem to be so much less convincing? (Part of me thinks the impression is largely due to the tendency to do SO much in an entirely CG environment vs. a practical and CG mix)

With that said, for anyone that ever saw the old interviews with 'Spaz', I don't think it's too surprising that his career encountered some...difficulties.

Rot said...

That's a great point: at some point they started realizing it was "easier" to CG the entire environment. That, right there, was definitely the downfall.

I had never even heard of this guy before. Which is TRAGIC.

Revenant Manor said...

I'd say you're probably in for a treat, then. :)

Prepare to meet a TRUE larger-than-life character. Genius, rebel, pioneer, etc., and not in that overused off-the-cuff reference kind of way in which those words are caually applied, but in the legitimate sense of each word.

This is THE guy behind the Psuedopod in The Abyss, the T-1000 in Terminator 2, and legitimately the reason we didn't get stop-motion animation for Jurassic Park, but instead got a fluid, dimensional, and believeable dinosaurs.

But, all of that incredible ability and artistry definitely seems to have come with some, errr, challenges.

It all seems so unbelievable, but he's the real deal. Honestly,if I saw this guy portrayed in a movie, I'd think the character needed to be toned down about 20% just to be remotely believable, and yet...


Rot said...

WOW. That is madness.
A genius who paid a dear price.

Haunted Eve said...

Mr. Haunted Eve here,
On the topic of CGI, it just reminded me how much I miss and how disappointed I was with SyFy Channel's decision to cancel the show Face Off back in 2018. I loved the creativity and artistry of seeing actual physical makeup, prosthetics, and costume design versus the very cartoon animation looking CGI creatures as of late.
Also on the topic of documentaries, I found 2014's "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau" fascinating. It left me yearning for what Stanley's true vision would have looked like had it come to pass.

Rot said...

I agree about Face Off... I loved that show and it was always amazing seeing practical makeup effects in an age of CG characters. Sad how it's "easier" to make CG villains now...like those Marvel and DC films. I feel like they're cartoons for kids and pretty much stay away from all of those these days.

And I too loved that documentary you mentioned. One of the best I've seen.

Willow Cove said...

I’m definitely gonna have to be watch this.