"The Pacific" from the makers of "Band of Brothers"

[Tarmac]

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Ang CGI is just getting more and more real. Just a few years ago, a film like Avatar would have been impossible to do. One day, we would never be able to distinguish an authentic P-47 Thunderbolt from a CGI one on a large HDTV screen. I think a made-for-TV production involving combat aircraft from WW2 would benefit highly from the community of combat flight simulation fans and plastic scale modellers out there on the web, if only for historical accuracy and bringing the budget down in terms of research etc.

I remember the Corsairs pounding Iwo Jima in Eastwood's back-to-back films "Flags of our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima"...they looked convincing enough (I believe most of the scenes used CGI Corsairs). And going back to those movies, the pilots weren't even seen in them--all you saw was a view from the Corsair 'pit as they strafed and bombed Mount Suribachi.

-RODION

CGI warbirds? Awww... awwww....

Somehow they still don't quite "fly" right for me.

[rodsky]

CGI warbirds? Awww... awwww....

Somehow they still don't quite "fly" right for me.

One of these days, they will fly "right"

And hey, at least CGI is better than a real-deal "substitute"...remember "The Longest Day"? When they used Two-seater Taifuns as subs for the Me 109? Or the countless T-6's painted with the "Red Angry Meatball" in countless war movies as a sub for the Japanese Zero? Or F-5's posing as "MiG's" in Top Gun? So, I'd still prefer a CGI "Emil" or "Zeke" any day

-RODION

[Tarmac]

One of these days, they will fly "right"

-RODION

They will. It's just in the details. Like turning too much for a given bank angle, a trajectory across the screen that doesn't seem to match the aircraft attitude, or the wrong control surface deflections...

For all I know it could be the director's fault--he wants the planes moving across the frame in a certain manner, so the CGI guys comply. In the industry however, any movie pilot worth his salt can actually tell the director what he can and can't do with a given shot.

But you're right: they will fly right. It's nothing that a CGI guy AND director who both have a good idea of how the real thing should fly, can't fix.

Have you ever watched History Channel's "Dogfights"? They do stuff with CGI that just isn't possible with real planes. And save for a few niggling details, the planes do "fly" right

[rodsky]

They will. It's just in the details. Like turning too much for a given bank angle, a trajectory across the screen that doesn't seem to match the aircraft attitude, or the wrong control surface deflections...

For all I know it could be the director's fault--he wants the planes moving across the frame in a certain manner, so the CGI guys comply. In the industry however, any movie pilot worth his salt can actually tell the director what he can and can't do with a given shot.

But you're right: they will fly right. It's nothing that a CGI guy AND director who both have a good idea of how the real thing should fly, can't fix.

Have you ever watched History Channel's "Dogfights"? They do stuff with CGI that just isn't possible with real planes. And save for a few niggling details, the planes do "fly" right

It's all about algorithm and plain laziness.

For instance, your example of the director who wants to moves his planes across the frame in a certain manner. He is presented with a finished CGI scene by the FX guys, and he says "Nah, they should veer more to the left here..." and the FX guys nod and start to rework the scene, but they know that they would need another week of editing to ensure that the control surfaces look right etc., and so laziness creeps in and someone says "What the heck, the general public won't notice it..." and there you go, the crime is committed. Now, say, an FX crew develops an algorithm so that, when the FX guys move a plane a little more to the left, the "handles" in whatever 3D dev tool they are using automatically adjusts to compensate for the steeper bank angle necessary for such a tighter turn, then voila, you hit too birds with one stone--you ensure that the shot looks "perfect" while at the same time, freeing the FX person to concentrate on other details rather than reworking the entire scene again just to move ailerons here and there.

-RODION

[echoe]

can't wait for part 5....heheh..stella, i love you!!! haha..

[prodigal_son321]

sa HBO mani... mao2 rag Band of brothers pero gipalindot ug maayo..

naa ba kahay mga pinoy ani?..

[Tarmac]

sa HBO mani... mao2 rag Band of brothers pero gipalindot ug maayo..

naa ba kahay mga pinoy ani?..

Wala. THe story revolves around three members of the 1st Marine Division. 1st Marine Division never fought in the Philippines.

[cooldude75ph]

Si Anna Torv man diay to si "Virginia Grey" sa Episode 5

Never thought "Olivia Dunham" of "Fringe" would appear sa "The Pacific"

[Fuhrer und Reichskanzler]

wala pa jud ko naka dl da sa part 5...

[Ekoydakoykoy]

mods palihug tag close naa na d.i thread ani..paxencyaC