2005 Boards Member bellpeppers is sharing with us a very cool commercial for Transformers: Age Of Extinction, advertising the GAC Trumpchi GS5 SUV. You may remember that GAC was a sponsor for the movie and one of their cars; the Trumpchi e-Jet was even featured in the movie.
VFX Artist Joaquim Montserrat is sharing this video and he has this to say:
A commercial for GAC GS5, a chinese SUV that is sponsoring the Transformers 4 movie. This is the VFX edit as nearly 20% of the VFX were cut from the broadcasted edit.
This was graded in Resolve, modeled and animated in Max, rendered with VRay and composited in Nuke.
Credits:
- VFX Supervision: Julien Vanhoenacker
- VFX Producer: Sahattaya Chantanop
- VFX Artists: Joaquim Montserrat, Alejandro Garcia, Pichaya Popanyasak, Gabriel Maymon, Chanon Adisakkitti, Brad Lorimer, Natthakit Sarunsikarin
- Compositing: Daniel Eggert, Ankit Vajpayee
You can find the “Making of” video at Vimeo as well.
H.E.X.-BRAVE
uh, i think its called the pre-Transformers concept of Takara's Diaclone line, yes "Optimus" back then was meant to a piloted mech, piloted by the magnetic Inch man figures that was a spin-off to the Microman figures that were bought to the US as Micronauts
Hound89
Thirdparty toy when?
The Iron Magnus
Transformers + Mobile Suit = Copyrite infragment.
BR3AKDOWN
I like how that Decepticon he beats up is DOTM Megatron with a different head.
OhMyPrimus
Spike`s exosuit perhaps! not a new idea but this girl is hot! LOL!
Autovolt 127
Why would they cut 20% of the VFX from the commercials?
I have to say it's a very nice one.
avc-prime
I guess like someone said, it is to pay homage to all the mobile suit mecha in China and Asia.
Tman978
That is the best most realistic transformation sequence they've ever done. It looked like there was no cheating. None of the movies have done that.
TFchronos
Very well done CGI (for a car commercial) and the action was in the foreground. Take note's Bay, you can learn a lot from this video.
Raiju
Neat commercial. The bot flying through space AOE Knight Optimus / Ironman style reminded me of the old 80's G1 box art with all the characters inexplicably flying through space (even Grimlock in dino mode) shooting lasers at each other. The human pilot is obviously a Diaclone homage. If this was a KSI commercial, that would've been sweet. Could have had it running as a subversive advert much like the first two 80's Robocop movies.
AhlGreen
Hope this could be the style of Transformers 5. Spacewars. Headmasters.
Bahamut Prime
Awesome!
UltraPrimal
That was modeled in 3ds Max? Holy shit! Why didn't my professor ever teach me to make Transformers? All we did was make a cereal box dance around and have a crane pick up and place an object.
donxavier
Couldn't agree more. Both the effects and bot designs appear cleaner to me in overall form and execution than the Bay films.
03Mach1
You earn no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
Yobuster
Wow that looks very slick indeed. The only "odd" part was the human pilot. Everything else was good. But perhaps she's just a "nebulan" partner.
Chris James
Evasion Prime disagrees.
Moy
Not that it matters but I thought I posted this first..
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…sformers-inspired-chinese-car-commercial.html
llamatron
That commercial contained more complete and effective transformations than anything seen in AoE.