Live Action Anime

From his official site, Michael Bay put up a new posting talking about the IMAX experience for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And anyone who’s ever been to an IMAX movie will probably be very excited for this.

Hey everyone,

In Japan today. After a month and half seven days a week most days going till midnight me and my crew have just about finished Transformers. I have never seen such a level of dedication from every crew member in a movie before.

Even today after the press in Japan and right before the premiere tonight, I have to sneak out to a digital house to approve the last few effect shots.

It has been a long hard road, but really fun one to travel. What you will notice that is strikingly different than Transformers 1, is the level of animation detail. The robot characters (42 in all), you really can feel empathy for them. What is also very different is the sheer scale of the movie. We have been very tight holding back much of the best imagery in commercials and trailers.

The way to see this movie is on IMAX. Never before has there been 4k rendered character animation shot on full IMAX 70 mm film. This is a first and the results are stunning. You will see Optimus Prime in a few shots where he is actually perfectly to scale on the IMAX 50 foot tall screens.

For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting. Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras so the screen will fill the full IMAX screen for these scenes.

Haters beware.

Michael

Notice that last sentence? “For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting.”

Also if you remember a while back Bay also mentioned that he shot some scenes with the IMAX cameras, so we also have full IMAX images to look forward too. So there you have it.  It would seem that if you want the most out of the film then you should definitely see it in IMAX!

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