Transformers 2 Facts and Figures [Updated]

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Don’t worry, I’m not going to mock Michael Bay for boasting again – probably his team does deserve the praise and boasting this time around (not for the story which thus far has been coldly recieved by the critics).

In terms the movie’s technical aspect, it does have some achievements, especially on ILM’s part. Let’s look at the breakdown of some important and impressive facts and figures below. [Spoiler Alert]

Cool Facts
- 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
- If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
- Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
- Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
- The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
- All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
- Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
- If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

Disk Space
- Trans1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
- 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Rendering Times
- If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premier!
- A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
- IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

IMAX
- Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
- IMAX frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
- IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
Remember; the movie has 3 full IMAX scenes!

ILM Screen Time
- ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes. (Okay, that’s half of Weta’s time for Cameron’s Avatar and that’s IMAX and 3D; what’s so great about this?)

Devastator
- Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
- Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
- Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Devastator Totals
- Number of geom pieces: 52632
- The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
- The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
- The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles

The three most recent TV spots, which seem to reveal a bit of more stuffs as well:

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If you’re so free, you might also want to try playing around with the Transformers 2 Augmented Reality marketing promo by Paramount. Head over to WeAreAutobots.com and use your webcam to create a virtual Transformers world around you. Have fun!

Update 1: You could also check out this viral campaign from Paramount; quite interesting I should say. More details at MovieViral. It’s quite similar to Sony’s cool marketing on District 9, but cooler.

Update 2: The reviews for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are already in from all around the world, with the movie seeing worldwide release in less than 3 days from now. At this material time, it stands at 40%  on RottenTomatoes (I’m serious; it’s 40!), and a review from the australian media screening claims that the movie is a big blunder of $200 million while some other critics even call it a self-parody of the franchise and probably Michael Bay himself. Check out Rottentomatoes‘s source.

Update 3: A new scene (when the kitchen robots come to life thanks to the AllSpark fragment) from the movie is now online. Check out the  video below:

Permalink | June 21st, 2009

One Response to “Transformers 2 Facts and Figures [Updated]”

  1. Ugen Says:
    June 20th, 2009 at 2:49 am

    ohh no….. i’ve read and seen too much :O

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