VFX Movie - Man of Steel

I am a giant fan of "Superman" character and stories, I was sceptical that this new adaptation of the movie would be a flop but boy was I wrong. I think this movie being made at this point was perfect, growing up I had the comic adaptations that were more for children. Now that I am fully grown up a more serious and realistic Superman was exactly what was needed.

Everyone who knows a little about Superman knows hows the story goes, Clark Kent aka Jor-El is sent from his home world when it is about to be 1. overthrown by a general and his army and 2. the planet is unstable because Clarks fathers warnings were not headed. So his father did the next best thing, knowing the planet would perish he sets up a series of events that would send his child to a distant planet known as Earth. What was great is we got a look at the home planet 'Krypton' which featured all kinds of little extras including plant life and animal, a great chance to use some imagination.

It was great that they decided to have Krypton a massively advanced race and still have organic plant life and animals aswell. As if to say they were a wise race and didn't destroy every resource, all though that's where they were heading.

The best VFX in this whole film for me personally is the final fight scene between Clark and Zod. Even though there isn't a great amount of the film left to see, this is where the action really picks up. I remember thinking holy crap in the cinema when they got into it, it was all over place really taking it out on each other! They aren't the vfx methods that I am most interested in but man they pack a punch. With as much as the camera is moving through the scenes aswell a large chunk of it had to be full 3D, it was moving so fast you wouldn't be able to tell with a filler shot here and there that had footage of the actors.

Seeing this makes me realise really, how important the 'Render Passes' tutorial was, without each of these options in much more complexity you could create the images exactly how you liked with flexibility needed aswell.