Talk:Computer-generated imagery

Was the wireframe grid in TFTM's "Behold Galvatron!" sequence CGI? --Thylacine 2000 19:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

No, it was not. the entire thing was drawn.--Grand-majin 20:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

The fly-through of the "O" in the opening titles is, though. --ItsWalky 20:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

2009 Toys R Us Big Book Ad Has CGI Transformers!

Just in case my recent edit doesn't survive I figured I'd note about it here. The 2009 Toys R Us Big Book Ad features CGI versions of Prime and Bumblebee [1]. What's the big deal about that you ask? The big deal (at least for me anyway) is that the CGI models are not simple, crude morphs that you might expect from a brief appearance in a toy commercial, but accurate recreations of the toys and their transformations. They are so accurate, that unless somebody obtained the CAD models directly from Hasbro, I suspect the animators may have actually taken apart some of the toys, created 3-D models of the parts (possibly with a 3-D scanner), reassembled the virtual parts and then animated them. Note the differences between these CGI models and ILM's, particularly Prime's crazy leg movements, exactly like the 2009 Leader Class toy. There are some subtle differences, but not all that many. Had these been rendered photorealistically, they might have been indistinguishable from the actual plastic toys.

Am I the only one to notice these new CGI transformers? Am I the only one to care?