Top VFX Contenders 2015

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The plot of the movie revolves around the technological marvel and the ultimate superweapon that can stay in the orbit and kill millions of innocents at a time and not the main characters of the movie.

Industrial Light & Magic planned a slight upgrade on the Helicarrier in the avengers which is about 25% larger than its predecessors. One of the biggest challenges in creating this model which took more than a year was to make the surveillance dome sit in the carrier so it doesn’t seem like a pregnant underbelly. But with the CG environments and destruction, they had to use only one or two of the carriers at a time. Not to mention the V Ray that came in handy during the integration of the highly complex shots.

The apes and their performance are central to the story of this movie. It was the extremely believable movements of these characters that lent this movie its charm. To make this possible, Andy Serkis who is synonymous with the ground breaking movie technique of motion capture was brought on board. The use of motion capture technique drastically brought down the time needed to bring the characters of Ceaser and his friends to life and allowed the team to work on more important parts like facial movements and more.

The story of the Guardians of the Galaxy revolves around five unlikely characters more specifically criminals who take on the task of saving the universe from the fanatical bad guy.

Groot and Rocket, two of the main characters of the five had to be created, one being a tree and the other a genetically modified raccoon like creature. Groot was brought to life using a mime dressed in a blue body suit and a mask that outlined the characters facial features. But was the emotional connection that these two characters bring about with every action sequence and choice they make that lends the movie a lot of the charm that it holds.

This movie is about a team of astronauts who take on a final voyage to find the humans another inhabitable planet as the crops fail through out the global.

The visual effects through out the movie was simply stunning but the one rather two that deserve most credit are the creation of the black hole and the wormhole. New software had to be written to create the scientifically accurate depiction of the black hole and worm hole that took them to the planet that was being considered as destination.

When a vengeful fairy curses the princess who is the only one who can save the land, we get a movie like Maleficent.

The entire movie required quite a bit of visual effects but the two specific effects that demand a special mention are

• The beautiful character work done for Angelina Jolie• The digital face work done on the animated characters

The entire movie revolves around characters of the past that come to life during the night. It is only obvious that movie receive credit for the different characters that were created for it like the Balinese dancers, Egyptian cat and more that seemed way too realistic to be unreal.

Once the lonely mountain was claimed, it was time to defend it against the darkness. The entire movie is packed with tremendous effects one after the other but there are two particular effects that deserve some partiality. One is when Smaug attacked the lake town and the second is the detailed building of the fire effects simulations.

This part of the transformers franchise received no credit as a movie from the audience or the critics but no one could deny the stunning visual effects.

The two effects that need to be mentioned are the Dinobots that were added and the hypno-transforming particle effects during the reassembly of the bots.

Anybody who saw this movie would say that they out did themselves with this one. But the one scene that sticks with us through the movie and even after is the slow motion sequence during the prison break. Not only was it brilliant for the effects but it was also funny and engaging!