Damnit, this is the kind of film I've been trying to work on for years...looks epic!
http://youtu.be/BpA6TC0T_Lw
http://youtu.be/BpA6TC0T_Lw
Movie Theater "Red Tails" Trailer
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No kidding. One of the studios I worked for did "Stealth" while I was downrange. A buddy of mine developed a very elaborate system of animating the aircraft in the Su-27 dogfight sequence that allowed them to actually "fly" them in the 3d environment using a realistic flight model. It was so good they looked into using it for all of the flight animation, allowing the quaternion rotation data to be exported to motion control cockpits the actors sat in so they could actually recreate the flight in the shots. But it was all canned so that the director could get shots that weren't realistic but instead looked "cool." So you have jets doing lots of barrel rolls for no particular reason.
No kidding. One of the studios I worked for did "Stealth" while I was downrange. A buddy of mine developed a very elaborate system of animating the aircraft in the Su-27 dogfight sequence that allowed them to actually "fly" them in the 3d environment using a realistic flight model. It was so good they looked into using it for all of the flight animation, allowing the quaternion rotation data to be exported to motion control cockpits the actors sat in so they could actually recreate the flight in the shots. But it was all canned so that the director could get shots that weren't realistic but instead looked "cool." So you have jets doing lots of barrel rolls for no particular reason.
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I'll watch it, probably for free, but it does look like a movie better seen on a really big screen.
I'll watch it, probably for free, but it does look like a movie better seen on a really big screen.
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That looks pretty good. Memphis Belle set the standard pretty high, I hope this can match it. I hope the CGI won't be too obvious like in that suckfest, Pearl Harbor.
That looks pretty good. Memphis Belle set the standard pretty high, I hope this can match it. I hope the CGI won't be too obvious like in that suckfest, Pearl Harbor.
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Well, "Memphis Bell" was made in 1990, during the last years of the optical FX age. There was only a small amount of actual aircraft they could film with. Today, with modern digital FX, we can fill the sky with realistic aircraft and show air battles at the actual size and scope that they took place at.
Moreover, all of that fire, explosions and smoke is simulated from fluid dynamics, so it's entirely CG vs filmed footage composited into the shot. Advances in fluid simulation have made all of this possible over the last 10 years or so, making the elements far better integrated and much more realistic overall.
Well, "Memphis Bell" was made in 1990, during the last years of the optical FX age. There was only a small amount of actual aircraft they could film with. Today, with modern digital FX, we can fill the sky with realistic aircraft and show air battles at the actual size and scope that they took place at.
Moreover, all of that fire, explosions and smoke is simulated from fluid dynamics, so it's entirely CG vs filmed footage composited into the shot. Advances in fluid simulation have made all of this possible over the last 10 years or so, making the elements far better integrated and much more realistic overall.
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I had the great honor of meeting Tuskegee Airman LTC Julius Jackson in fall 2001, weeks after 9/11, when I was a freshman in college and a C4C in AFROTC.
In his 80s, the man was still quite active in the Illinois Civil Air Patrol.
Damn near everybody who ever wanted to strap on a fighter in the USAF knows the combat record of the 332nd, which is spectacular even before you consider the BS those men had to go through.
I really enjoyed the HBO movie when it came out, and will DEFINITELY be seeing this film.
I had the great honor of meeting Tuskegee Airman LTC Julius Jackson in fall 2001, weeks after 9/11, when I was a freshman in college and a C4C in AFROTC.
In his 80s, the man was still quite active in the Illinois Civil Air Patrol.
Damn near everybody who ever wanted to strap on a fighter in the USAF knows the combat record of the 332nd, which is spectacular even before you consider the BS those men had to go through.
I really enjoyed the HBO movie when it came out, and will DEFINITELY be seeing this film.
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