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WickedJenn
10-30-2008, 01:53 PM
Discuss all the special effects here.
ClarkyBoy14
10-30-2008, 08:07 PM
The CGI cape didn't look so great, but the rest of the SFX looked good. I liked the FX on Sebastian's eyes when Chloiac overloaded him.
bizzaroboy9
10-30-2008, 08:09 PM
the cape was real not cgi...
6-Super-Man -5
10-30-2008, 08:17 PM
the cape was real not cgi...

...And you know this how?
I liked the super-speed, and the cape looked amazing.
bizzaroboy9
10-30-2008, 08:24 PM
duh.. u can tell it was real! cgi wld looked stupid!
lovinredkclark
10-30-2008, 08:24 PM
the fx were great again. they really have stepped up this season and here's hoping they only get better.
Smallville6
10-30-2008, 08:25 PM
When Ollie was diving down to save Jimmy it was real, but not when everyone was looking at him atop the building.
I though when Sabastion took people's memories, it looked really cool!
ClarkyBoy14
10-30-2008, 08:36 PM
the cape was real not cgi...

I doubt that. It looked pretty CGI-ish. And it wasn't even in the "Identity" promo pics, so it couldn't have been there when they filmed it. :|
minerva73
10-30-2008, 08:56 PM
The special effects during the first car scene looked kinda weird from the angle that they shot it and added them, but the other FX looked fantastic.
6-Super-Man -5
10-30-2008, 08:58 PM
duh.. u can tell it was real! cgi wld looked stupid!

... Not really...
Bizarro345
10-30-2008, 09:07 PM
Loved the super speed in the beginning. And also liked Oliver's "Super Arrow" scene.
Routh
10-30-2008, 09:31 PM
The CGI cape was surprisingly well done. The slo-mo mugging sequence a the beginning was also great.
kal-05
10-30-2008, 09:33 PM
The special effects during the first car scene looked kinda weird from the angle that they shot it and added them, but the other FX looked fantastic.

Ya Clark turning to his left to look at Jimmy during the Lois rescue was strange. If he turned right to face Lois as he was saving her and then turned his head to Jimmy it would have made more sense.

It's illogical as to why they chose to do it the way they did. Maybe the communication between the stunt guys and the Effects guys wasn't going to well.

Also I agree with the cape looking CGI. Again that's another odd choice especially seeing as they have a very low budget this season.
Super Maverick
10-31-2008, 09:16 AM
Great FX at the beginning scene with Jimmy taking the pic...
skully
11-01-2008, 07:12 AM
I'll let it slide, but I thought the Clark superspeed to "catch" Lois at the beginning was sooooo obviously a 2 scene green-screen match up. TW reached down and looked to be nowhere near cradling Lois as he then turned to look at Jimmy. But I guess that's you get when the stupid head of the network cuts a stack out of your episode budget.
Super EJ
11-02-2008, 05:02 PM
i honestly think that all of the CGI was fantastic except for the cape. For those of you that have HD Channels like me your could tell the CGI, they made it look like the cape from the cartoon, it was too CGIish. Also I prefer the CGI cape from Superman Returns than from this Episode of Smallville. I don't know thats my opinion.
LexFactor
11-03-2008, 05:01 AM
I thought the cgi cape was surprisingly well done, much better than I thought it would be. Although I don't know why they decided to go cgi in the first place.

It's not fair to compare the cgi cape from a $200+ million dollar movie to a low budget television show.
roccanater
11-03-2008, 06:33 AM
I liked the superspeeding in slow motion to save Lois. It was done well.
TheANIMAL (marcus)
11-03-2008, 07:17 PM
It was a mix of CGi and real prop cape. The close-ups were real for obvious reasons but ontop of the building it was definately CGI, i am 100% certain.

The specularity looked fake (the unnatural highlights because the shader wasn't realistic enough).

The motion was wrong (i've seen plenty of cloth animatics, and this was below average, they tried too hard to go for the iconic cape swirl).

Also the color wasn't quite right (there should have been more indirect lighting effects, the blue of the costume should have left a slight blue reflection on the cape and similarly the blue costume should have had more of a red tint on the back, its called color bleeding).

This i feel was the most important thing they got wrong, you can almost get away with bad animation and highlights if the colour bleeding is spot on, because you get a proper sense of interation.
Tompouce
11-04-2008, 11:13 AM
I liked when Clark came to the talon to rescue Lois and hurt Sebastian, it was speed and effective
AnonymousVFXGuy
11-06-2008, 08:00 PM
Skully, your comment about the green screen split up made me chuckle. It was infact a single shot and Clark was actually in the same plate as Lois. I love seeing your guys comments and discussions about the show, and yeah some of the shots do turn out not so good, but it comes down to time not just money in the budget. The turn around for these types of shows can sometimes only be a week, maybe a bit more. So sometimes there's just not enough time to make everything perfect.
SparkleforSmallville
11-06-2008, 08:57 PM
Skully, your comment about the green screen split up made me chuckle. It was infact a single shot and Clark was actually in the same plate as Lois. I love seeing your guys comments and discussions about the show, and yeah some of the shots do turn out not so good, but it comes down to time not just money in the budget. The turn around for these types of shows can sometimes only be a week, maybe a bit more. So sometimes there's just not enough time to make everything perfect.

Welcome to Kryptonsite:) I love the FX on Smallville, it's one of the things that makes the show so great!
If you have something to do with that, then Good Job, Mr AnonymousVFXGuy!;)

I saw a BTS shot of the scene and they had Lois on a stand to suspend her in the air, while clark ran into the shot! it was awesome! I wish we could see more "Behind The Scenes" pics!