Our visual effects work for "Transformers" (2007) is still being lauded to this day, which is a testament to the amazing talents of the visual effects teams at Industrial Light & Magic under the supervision of Scott Farrar, Russell Earl and Scott Benza.
I frequently see myths about the production timeline of our film, and in the spirit of squashing misinformation, I'd like to address it here.
In a quote tweet responding to someone complimenting our work on the movie, a social media post reads:
The reason the VFX looks so stellar is because ILM began animating for the film in early 2005. They had Two Entire Years to complete the CGI. The industry standard now is a couple months if they're feeling generous.
Very roughly, ILM's first animation tests took place in May 2006, while director Michael Bay, Farrar, Earl and Benza were still shooting the movie. I started compositing the first transformation shots in the movie in June 2006. Our ILM crew was modest at the start, and grew by September 2006. The movie wrapped filming in October 2006. The movie was released in theaters July 2007. So, roughly speaking, the lion's share of visual effects production took place in less than one year.
Please stop repeating this "two years" business. Yes, generally speaking, we had more time to work on this type of movie than we do these days, but let's not be hyperbolic and repeat the lie that we had more than double the time to complete our visual effects shots than what was true.
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