#Action Movie FX

[ramavoite]

I just keep thinking how glad I am the season is over because now Brennan can finally take a shower

[mariocki]

The Aftermath (1982)

"What happens when you die?"

"I don't know, son. No one does."

"It's sad to die."

"No. Death isn't sad. We all have to die. What's sad is having to go on without someone you love. Just as we have to go on now."

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

KNIGHT FROM DARKEST HELL – A BIOENGINEERED, HULKING, MARTIAN MONSTROSITY.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on concept art for the Hell Knight, a.k.a., "The Baron," artwork by Aaron Sims (supervised by John Rosengrant), from the “DOOM” 2005 movie trading card series by Artbox.

Source: www.ebay.com/itm/153909442003.

[eaktionsshaytan]

[marisatomay]

okay i’m also mad that nope wasn’t nominated for like anything at the oscars as evidenced by by post about being mad that was being reblogged here but let’s not come for the one nominee that literally invented a whole new camera and new filming techniques to capture actors at supersonic flight at imax quality from the inside of a cockpit. you don’t have to like it to respect the amount of effort and ingenuity that went into the production.

[music-movies-mayhem]

I didn't want to get any hopes up about the comic con panel announcement...but now that they literally advertised it on tv I'm calling it right here and now, we're gonna get a movie.

[starsstillshine]

convinced the roomies to watch tokyo drift and all of them gave up before the ending and questioned how different our childhoods were for me to be watching movies like this all the time when i was like 9 lmfao

[da-ill-spot]

Movie Trailer: Shōgun

[devongeorgeart]

Everything Everywhere All at Once - ANIMATED!?

Earlier this year Jermaine Jose and I started a collaborative vis dev project with the goal to do a 2D animated spin on three frames from a live action movie. I think they turned out better than I could ever imagine :D

I tackled the backgrounds, tumbleweed and bagel FX animations, as well as the VHS/CRTV compositing effect. Here's some of the bg work I did!

Jermz created some absolutely awesome character designs and his guidance through the whole thing was invaluable, such a fun project 💪

[crazysodomite]

remakes as a concept arent bad but there's a reason animated movies are in the animated movies medium. its not correct to think that every animated movie could be translated into live action. there's a reason they are animated. becauser they specifically utilize the medium for their own goals. and sure, in theory a live action 'remake' doesnt Immediately mean it's gonna be bad but it usually is because they are remaking something just for the sake of it. not changing the story and setting and scenes to specifically fit the medium of live action but literally just making an animated movie a live action movie with cgi for no reason. the reason being that you can exploit cgi/fx artists more and you get to exploit the fame of great animated movies to get more cash.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"LET'S START FROM SCRATCH AGAIN AND DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME" -- A 2008 MARVEL STUDIOS STORY.

FILM: "The Incredible Hulk" (2008)

DIRECTOR: Louis Leterrier

SCREENWRITER: Zack Penn

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Menzies Jr.

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Marvel Studios & Valhalla Motion Pictures

DISTRIBUTION: Universal Pictures

OVERVIEW: "In 2003, Universal released Ang Lee's adaptation of "The Incredible Hulk," one of the most popular and enduring Marvel superheroes (titled "Hulk"). Five years later, Universal has released yet another version of "The Incredible Hulk" (which opened June 13th). This new Hulk movie is actually a "let's start from scratch again and do it right this time" concept. That's because Lee's cerebral approach did not wow the fan base.

PART II: Five years later, Marvel Studios is trying to re-launch the franchise on its own -- Universal is only distributing the movie. French action specialist Louis Leterrier ("The Transporter") directed a brand new cast, featuring Edward Norton as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, and opted for a completely different approach to visual effects.

In 2003, Industrial Light & Magic created some 600 effects shots. In 2008, VFX Supervisor Kurt Williams and VFX Producer Paul Molles oversaw about 800 shots produced by seven different facilities. Rhythm & Hues (including R&H India) produced 224 character animation shots, plus 10 composites, while Hydraulx realized 248 shots featuring complex composites, CG environments, CG helicopter and a full CG Abomination transformation.

Other key vendors included Soho VFX (114 shots -- composites and CG environments) and Image Engine (75 shots -- blood drop shot, plus a CG environment for Rhythm & Hues). Lola VFX, G Creative and X1 also worked on the project."

-- ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK (AWN), ""The Incredible Hulk": Back to Basics," Alain Bielik gets the jump on "The Incredible Hulk" by speaking with Rhythm & Hues, by Alain Bielik, c. June 2008

Sources: Pinterest, Twitter, www.awn.com/vfxworld/incredible-hulk-back-basics, various, etc...

[wanderersrest]

An Abbreviated History of Mecha Part 1: The Mighty Atomic Prelude (The 50's and 60's)

Welcome to An Abbreviated History of Mecha anime. Today, we're starting at, as Fraulein Maria would say, at the very beginning. We're taking a quick peak at the beginning of the canon, which means that we're starting back in 1950 (specifically 1952). I should also confess right now: there are two series on here that are demonstrably NOT mecha shows. However, due to their sheer influence on Japanese media as a whole, I feel it is important to bring them up as being honorary mecha shows due to their sheer influence pop culture.

Tetsuwan Atom/Mighty Atom/Astro Boy (1952)

Starting us off is Osamu Tezuka's seminal manga series, Mighty Atom. Known over here in the west as Astro Boy, this series would be what kickstarts a lot of the modern anime and manga industry due to its sheer popularity. Astro Boy would also be one of two series that would be emblematic of how Japanese pop culture would portray the recent use of atomic energy. It should also be worth noting that realizing that Astro technically is a mecha is what got me to start using a broader definition of mecha instead of the classic giant robot definition.

Due to its fame, Mighty Atom has receive multiple adaptations throughout the years. Of note are:

The original 1963 anime.

New Mighty Atom (1980) which updates the series to 1980's animation standards.

The 2003 anime, which does the same, but to the standards of early 2000's anime.

The 2009 CGI movie.

Gojira/Godzilla (1954, honorary mecha series 1)

1954 would also give us Ishiro Honda's Godzilla, the movie that would make tokusatsu-styled live action stories in Japan. Godzilla, alongside RKO's King Kong, would play a large part in popularizing the concept of kaiju. And boy will kaiju play a big part in the history of the mecha canon. As we'll see soon enough, the history of tokusatsu heroes, kaiju, and robots are all intertwined with one another.

Godzilla has starred in numerous movies since the original, but for stories based off of the original there are:

Godzilla Raids Again (1955), a direct sequel.

Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: All Out Monsters Attack (2001), a Heisei-era production that uses the original '54 Godzilla as a manifestation of the horrors of World War II.

Shin Godzilla (2016), a re-imagining of the original movie set in contemporary times directed by Hideakki Anno.

Godzilla Minus One (2023), the most recent outing inspired in part by GMK.

Tetsujin 28-go/Gigantor (1956)

(Oh hey, this gif again!)

Tetsujin 28-go is the creation of one Mitsuteru Yokoyama and is generally regarded as the grandfather of the giant robot style of mecha. Tetsujin is unique amongst mecha in that it is controlled not by a pilot riding inside of it, but by a little kid with a controller. Tetsujin 28, alongside Mazinger Z, would help to codify a lot of the tropes common to the classic superhero mecha anime that would be prevalent in the 70's. Like Mighty Atom, Tetsujin would receive multiple adaptations throughout the decades.

Shin Tetsujin 28-Go/The New Adventures of Gigantor (1980), which updates Tetsujin's design to look more in line with something like Mazniger Z.

Tetsujin 28-go FX (1992), sporting a radically different look that's more akin to something out of the Brave Franchise.

Tetsujin 28 (2004), a faithful adaptation of the original manga (at least I think it is) directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa.

Cyborg 009 (1964)

Created by Shotaro Ishinomori in 1964, Cyborg 009 is another classic human-sized mecha series. Cyborg 009 would be the first of many hits for Ishinomori, and he will be mentioned again later in this series.

Oh boy... I am not a Cyborg 009 nut, but in terms of adaptations, Cyborg 009 has:

The 1966 Film

The 1980 Film

009 Re:Cyborg (2012)

The Call For Justice Trilogy (2016)

The 1968 Anime

The 1979-1980 Anime

The 2001-2002 Anime (I actually remember when Toonami aired this series!)

Cyborg 009 vs Devilman (2015 OVA)

If you want to follow someone who follows a lot of Shotaro Ishinomori's works, I'd recommend checking out YouTuber Mercury Falcon for more info about Ishinomori.

Ultra Q and Ultraman (1966, honorary mecha series 2)

(The urge to use a gif of Ingraman is strong)

Ultra Q and Ultraman are the first two entries of Tsuburaya's legendary Ultra franchise, with the latter in particular being one of the most famous pop culture icons of all time. Ultraman's influence on Japanese media is so large, that I'll be mentioning it at least once in relation to other series later on.

Ultraman, like Godzilla before him, would get the Hideaki Anno treatment with Shin Ultraman in 2022.

Giant Robo/Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (1967)

Another one of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's classic manga series, Giant Robo deserves a mention due to its influence on tokusatsu. Giant Robo would usher in an era of tokusatsu that would rely on using giant robots as the main protagonist.

In terms of adaptations, there are two animated adaptations, but only one will be listed here:

GR: Giant Robo (2007)

If you want to learn a little bit more about the history behind Giant Robo, I'd recommend checking out blunova's video on Giant Robo for more info on this important series.

Conclusion

As the 60's would lead way into the 70's, we would see a lot more live action tokusatsu series involving giant robots. Of course, this would be untenable due to how expensive it was to do tokusatsu effects for television. However, one robot would appear in animation that would change everything.

(Read in the voice of Tessho Genda) AND ITS NAME IS...!!!!

[gt-gem]

i haven't seen any other blogs mentioning anything about it, so sorry if I missed something, but i just got done watching the Netflix movie Ultraman Rising and. hoo boi.

first off, just to get it out of the way: it's weird. the story is more than a bit weird, and the characters are far from written perfectly, but damn if it doesn't sort of work for what it's going for, and if it isn't actually kinda cute and fun. at a lot of times it actually looks pretty rad, i mean just look at this shot

i just randomly played this one out of pure curiosity and oh MAN am i glad i did, this one's got so much going for it: g/t (anyone that knows anything about ultraman will know that but come on), neat stylized animation, good music, surprisingly well-done action sequences and visual/sound fx, etc.

apparently this movie dropped over 6 months ago and i am SHOCKED that i never even heard of it before now, but if you get the chance, give it a watch; it's far from perfect, but i had way more fun than i anticipated going into it, and i think it could use some more love

[aangarchy]

I know its hard to replicate in live action. But it just seems so weird that in both the movie and live action remake that zuko has TWO eyebrows

It's not that hard to replicate. You can literally glue down a brow and paint over it, which drag queens have been doing for decades. Dallas also shaved his head to commit to Zuko's hairstyle, he could have shaved an eyebrow. I've seen plenty of Zuko cosplays that either hide the eyebrow, paint over it or make it lighter to make it part of the scar. Cosplayers with amateur fx makeup make it look more believable than netflix did. They have a huge budget and yet they still just decided to apply some red paint with a sponge and call it a day.

At least it's visible this time, unlike Dev Patel's was. But Dev Patel's texture looked better.

[bodyhorrorbeatdown]

Body Horror Beatdown, Match 17, Round 1

Vote for your favorite:

Propaganda under the cut.

Mad God:

A journey beyond your wildest nightmares.

"Mad God is THEE body horror movie in my mind. Stop motion animation and heavily stylized live action combine to create a disgusting fetid mass of living things that fester in cruelty and industrial squalor. Everywhere you look something is alive and wet and moving in ways it shouldn't. It's a deeply disturbing film that wormed its way into my heart with its beautifully fucked up visuals and lack of consideration for mass appeal."

The Thing:

Man is the warmest place to hide.

jesus christ i have so much propaganda for this. it's my (the poll runner's) favorite in the bracket btw <3

"IT'S AMONG US, BUT WITH COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF GORE DONE THROUGH PRACTICAL EFFECTS. WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT?"

"ROB BOTTIN’S EFFECTS ARE THE BEST IN ANY FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN, AND I WATCH A LOT OF HORROR FILMS WITH A LOT OF EFX AND I GOTTA SAY HE DID A FANTASTIC JOB (HE WAS 22 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF DOING THE PRACTICAL FX FOR THIS FILM) Also it has Kurt Russell in it what more could you want"

"It's the best most special thing with all the fancy abilities"

"Awesome practical effects that still hold up, wet and slimey beasts, Kurt Russell looking hot"

"THE body horror movie. Ever wanted to see KY jelly and chewed up bubblegum used to create the most horrifying, gooey, and bulbuous mass of a creature you've ever seen? I SURE DO!!! It's such a practical effects monster especially with the big puppet-thing at the end that took almost fifty people to operate, AND the sound design with all the crackling and popping... ough. Just the first transformation scene with the kennel-thing is enough sicken someone. It's so good."

"all sequence of the thing is entirely practical effects, the blood and the gore, the tentacles and different versions of the thing. the practical effects were actually shot after the rest of the movie had wrapped up because making the effects took so long. they actually had an amputee in the scene where a characters arms were ripped off by the chest mouth in the defibrillator scene. Honestly John Carpenters magnum opus that was hounded by critics when it came out, but rightfully ADORED by horror fans in the present day for its amazing practical effects and awesome plot. bold and daring move to hide a lot of the characters eyes in many scenes, eyes are window to the soul and the thing doesn't want people knowing."

"I mean, this movie is an icon of body horror. Miss alien ate and the practical effects still terrify me on repeat viewings."