The thing about robots is that they look best when not over-engineered. The stuff out of '
Transformers' films? Those ones are
hideously over-complicated, with the exception of a few designs. They psychologically confuse most viewers because of there being too much detail flying around in front of the screen at speeds which are too quick to register.
Stuff like you see for the original '
Robocop' (both Robocop and the ED-209) and '
Terminator' films are a lot better. The mechanics
look functional. They're recognisable as something which has been engineered to move in the way they do - mostly because the people who built the suits and puppets had to account for the range of movement.
Something like the big screen incarnation of Megatron? It's got spikes all over it for no good reason. It doesn't look logical. Then the director has it move around and connecting with lots of
other needlessly over-complicated things at very high speeds and it gets difficult for the average person to figure out what's going on.
Quote from: Omegazilla on Jul 02, 2013, 06:22:34 PM
This one catches me by surprise. It wasn't? Not even the final shot of it being sucked into the railway?
Don't know about the specifics of that, but can remember Anderson speaking about how he always catches heat from RE fans about it being bad CGI when it was actually practical.
On the other hand, look at the arachnid warriors from '
Starship Troopers'. Horridly superficial film, but the CGI work on them was excellent.
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I know - wish they'd kept that in! Looked like a genuine extraterrestrial creature...
I mean, in strictly biological terms, there are evolutionary rules which dictate the humanoid form is going to be the most likely for a space-travelling civilisation, but as something meant to look like something from another planet, that thing there is a work of art.
