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Light posting tonight - other stuff and a bit tired

Working on some other stuff and also fighting off some low-grade thing that has been nosing around my immune system for the last week or two. Early evening. We went in to see a matinée showing of the latest Transformers movie. That was a lot of fun and worth seeing on the big-screen to fully appreciate the CGI that went into it. A lot of throw-away sight gags that were only on the screen for a few seconds -- references to other movies, etc... Go and see it. One thing that surprised me was the level of sophistication of the models used for the Transformers. You can build a good human model from about 1,000 to 3,000 polygons (not counting bump, hair and surface maps). I would like to know the number of polygons used on even the smaller Transformers. Optimus Prime must be in the tens of thousands -- the Decepticons even higher. And I hope that Hasbro is licensing the car hood ornaments used -- I would love to get a nice subtle Autocon ornament to replace the plain vanilla Dodge on my truck... Off to the DaveCave(tm) to check email and then to an early bed... Posted by DaveH at July 12, 2009 8:23 PM | TrackBack