THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Special Effects Breakdown Of The Lizard

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Special Effects Breakdown Of The Lizard THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Special Effects Breakdown Of The Lizard

Sr. Visual Effects Supervisor Jerome Chen and Digital Effects Supervisor David Smith provide commentary in this great video that features the process of bringing The Lizard to life in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man.

By nailbiter111 - Jul 12, 2012 03:07 PM EST
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JDUKE25
JDUKE25 - 7/12/2012, 3:22 PM
The effects on the Lizard were good not great.
StarSpangledBruce
StarSpangledBruce - 7/12/2012, 3:31 PM
The expression on the Lizard's face in the last image looks like he just saw titty.
GoILL
GoILL - 7/12/2012, 3:32 PM
@JDUKE25 Agreed.
Emanuel14
Emanuel14 - 7/12/2012, 3:32 PM
the lizard effects were GREAT
IronManisGOAT
IronManisGOAT - 7/12/2012, 3:34 PM
CG for the Lizard sucked. Look of the Lizard sucked. Everything about the Lizard sucked. Why would the Lizard of the comics want or even be interested in spraying people with lizard gas to make everyone elite? Doesn't make sense. Best Spider-Man/Peter Parker on the big screen so far though.
IronManisGOAT
IronManisGOAT - 7/12/2012, 3:35 PM
Godzillafart... you are delusional. Name a special effect in TASM and compare it to an effect in Avengers and explain how TASM's was better.
IronManisGOAT
IronManisGOAT - 7/12/2012, 3:36 PM
That's because Hulk WAS better than Lizard, by leaps and bounds.
JMESS
JMESS - 7/12/2012, 3:37 PM
its a bad killer croc.
laughterman26
laughterman26 - 7/12/2012, 3:38 PM
THE HULK shat all over lizard
laughterman26
laughterman26 - 7/12/2012, 3:41 PM
@BossWalsh realy you thought avatar was shit cgi, THE WHOLE [frick]ING THING WAS CGI [with the acception of a couple sets here and there]if i saw you right now, this is how shit would go down you can make a skyrim joke and the take a punch to the face
travispipes
travispipes - 7/12/2012, 3:44 PM
I thought it was great as well. The subtle things like the way the his scales shined, and the way he smelled things with his tongue, just like actual lizards do. Overall though the design cant compare to the Hulk from The Avengers.
95
95 - 7/12/2012, 3:44 PM
The Lizard actually looks good in that video. Looks like a mini-Godzilla. I need to see this film.
SmokenOaken
SmokenOaken - 7/12/2012, 3:44 PM
Hate to say it, but... Sh!t movie.. Sh!t special effects..
TheWebSlinger
TheWebSlinger - 7/12/2012, 3:51 PM
@IronManisGOAT, say what you want, but this movie has some of the best CG I've scene in a while. The Avengers was rather inconsistent, Hulk looked great, it was easy to tell when Ironman is CG, especially the one scene with him and Thor in the woods and the planted Downey's face into a CG model. The Alien army was terrible, especially when fighting Captain America. When this comes out on Bluray, unless they touch up on it, it'll be more apparent.

The Lizard was ok, some scenes were spotty, but most of them were great. From the cloth simulation done with his skin to make him look more reptilian, to the simulation of the cloth being dynamically shredded by the gun fire in the scene shown above. ANY ANIMATOR KNOWS HOW HARD THAT IS, to make look realistic, including my self. I'm going to school for this.

The CG of their fight scenes tops most films, the hall room was completely rendered, which is astonishing to me. The sewer fight was also beautifully done, they make you think a lot of stuff was done practically. The touch ups done to the webbing in that scene were quite amazing. The trick to great CG is to not really let the audience "know" what they are seeing, they nailed that here. The biggest flaw about the Lizards CG in this film, is that they should've chose better lighting for him on certain scenes, that would let him blend in more than pop out at you and be too noticeable. Perhaps they intentionally did that because it was filmed in 3D. This might be Sony Image Works best work, they out did themselves this time. Kudos to them.
JDUKE25
JDUKE25 - 7/12/2012, 4:09 PM
Anyone else getting redirecting when they click on this article?
95
95 - 7/12/2012, 4:15 PM
@JDUKE25 You are not alone.
NerdyGeek
NerdyGeek - 7/12/2012, 4:58 PM
CaitlinRobegxbe is spamming the article
defenderofthefaith
defenderofthefaith - 7/12/2012, 5:11 PM
Doesn't this new Spiderman look a lot like Harry from the last trilogy?
angus666
angus666 - 7/12/2012, 5:27 PM
Hulk looked better, though I did like how they put some little hairs on his face. It added a slightly gross creepiness to him. I still think the Hulk looked better though.
superotherside
superotherside - 7/12/2012, 5:28 PM
Hulk looked tons better than Lizard. That said, Lizard's look was very good.
travispipes
travispipes - 7/12/2012, 5:29 PM
Whatever the SFX are freaking AMAZING!
mattattack
mattattack - 7/12/2012, 5:36 PM
Maybe the SFX were solid on TASM but the design and look of the Lizard was retarded. No snout, no lab coat? Come onnnnnnn
nosnegrom
nosnegrom - 7/12/2012, 7:16 PM
Which hulk are they talking about
FireKnightRises
FireKnightRises - 7/13/2012, 12:02 AM
lizard look more realistic than hulk? are you people serious??

lizard looks good because he always appeared in night, his CG will looks bad if its in daylight
sirbonesalot
sirbonesalot - 7/13/2012, 3:52 AM
The only good Lizard Part was when he had on the lab coat.........


good movie though
silverdog
silverdog - 7/13/2012, 5:56 AM
but sfx were good, but the hulk was a better character.
CaptainObvious
CaptainObvious - 7/13/2012, 9:04 AM
The Hulk was much better than the Lizard. You know when the CGI is goofy when people are chuckling whenever it appears on screen.
jackdawak
jackdawak - 7/13/2012, 4:33 PM
GOOMBAAAAA!!!
AmazingFantasy
AmazingFantasy - 7/15/2012, 2:49 AM
Lizard owned.
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