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[Vauxhall]

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.

Interesting feature article about the special effects of SPECTRE, and some of SKYFALL.

Some of the before and after shots are great. The Morocco crater was basically empty!

http://www.dailymail...s-revealed.html

[stromberg]

Fascinating. Here's some more on this:

 

http://tom-i-butler....efore-and-after

 

http://www.awn.com/v...effects-spectre

[S K Y F A L L]

awesome! cool miniature DB5. A lot more CGI then I thought. Blofeld's base is just a sidewalk, lol.

[marktmurphy]

I wouldn't have guessed that the mouse was CGI. Love the Rome doubling for Tangier as well; very smart.

[Dustin]

That mouse was bloody magic!

[Vauxhall]

I wouldn't have guessed that the mouse was CGI. Love the Rome doubling for Tangier as well; very smart.

 

I'd never have picked out the Rome/Tangier shots. Seamless.

[Gobi-1]

If you want an in depth look at the special effects of Spectre I highly recommend you order Cinefex magazine issue 145.

 

http://www.cinefex.c...es/issue145.htm

 

 

Issue 133 covers Skyfall

 

http://www.cinefex.c...es/issue133.htm

 

 

And if you want to go way back, issue 15 covers Never Say Never Again!

 

http://www.cinefex.c...ues/issue15.htm

 

[thecasinoroyale]

Awesome read - thanks for finding! Blofeld's base actually shocked me...I had no idea it was basically nothing!

 I feel so cheated.

 

Wow.

[SecretAgentFan]

Highly surprising to me - but that´s a creative use of CGI these days.

 

Seems like building sets like Ken Adam did is not financially feasible anymore?

[thecasinoroyale]

Funny how the films today cost so much more - SO much more, but you really don't know where it goes on screen. Half of the sets are evidently CGI, and as you say, the set building and ingenious devices and lairs are all but gone.

 

So where does the money go when previous Bonds could do it for a fraction of the price.

[RMc2]

It depends, thecasinoroyale - are you remembering to adjust the budgets of previous films for inflation?

 

TLD was made for $40 million in 1986 - that's a phenomenal budget similar to today's figures.

 

But yeah, back in the 60s, the early budgets of $1-10 million went a lot further, even when adjusted.

[Marketto007]

[Harmsway]

Highly surprising to me - but that´s a creative use of CGI these days.

Seems like building sets like Ken Adam did is not financially feasible anymore?

Those days are long gone, alas.

[Simon]

Unbelievable stuff.

 

Really very impressive.

[agentbug]

Interesting reads, brilliant stuff. Makes me appreciate the film more, even though it is not one of my faves.

[MattofSteel]

Damn. The Altausse/Austrian establishing shot was so much more beautiful minus the SFX additions - I guess it didn't look "wintery" enough for them, but I much prefer the unaltered aesthetic.

 

The rest of those comparisons are incredible. This is what good CGI is. The amplifying kind you can't see. Not the kind that brags "how many polygons can we pack into Superman, Doomsday, Batman, and Wonder Woman pummeling each other."

[stromberg]

Very interesting, about the interface design on the computer screens in SPECTRE:

 

http://vincentlondon...o=007-spectre-2

[Simon]

To all those who keep on banging on about how 'they' should be able to pop out a Bond film every two years, quite simply the productions of today are so much more of a mammoth affair than the films of the sixties.

 

The amount of work involved is just incredible.

[Jim]

Whatever their individual merits, we're bloody lucky to get them as regularly as we do.

[stromberg]

Very interesting, about the interface design on the computer screens in SPECTRE:

 

http://vincentlondon...o=007-spectre-2

Forgot to post the link to this article:

http://www.maxon.net...ng-spectre.html

 

Just read the Oberhauser accident article, which made me chuckle. Why are they capable to write a perfect fake article (they even use special Austrian expressions), but create such a horribly wrong headline? 

[marktmurphy]

That's nice. I wonder what the watch stuff was all about?

[DaveBond21]

I don't like knowing too many movie magic secrets though!

[mattjoes]

Those shots of Bond and Hinx driving along the banks of the Tiber are not very good, though.