[bizzybody]

Right now I'd love to have copies of the aircraft models used in "The Sky Crawlers". Do a search on YouTube, you'll find plenty of videos.

[Flipside]

Angelina Jolie in Beowulf?

[bizzybody]

Somehow Jolie as Grendel's mother, with dragon wings and tail, doesn't seem all that sexy... Curiously, the special features don't show anything with Jolie. Angelina Jolie in a mocap suit. Now *that* would be hot.

(Reminds me I still haven't watched the Director's Cut DVD I snagged from a 95 cent bargain bin.)

Next on my list, the original CG models and textures for "The Last Starfighter", translated into a format usable with current software.

[Thaeris]

Apart from a clip of the Arcade game opening scene, did they even use CG Models in that film?

-Thaeris

[bizzybody]

Hells yeah! "The Last Starfighter" was the first film to have scenes that were 100% CGI*. It also combined live actors with CGI. All shots in space where there were no actors visible were 100% CGI.

Due to it being a box office bomb, Atari didn't finish the game for the 5200 console (it's available for emulators, but the Gunstar has no shields) and plans for a real version of the arcade game were aborted. Had the movie made ze beeg money, Atari could've justified spending the money on what would have been the most complex and expensive arcade game ever, which would've dramatically advanced the state of the art of videogame technology.

*The very first film to use real computer graphics as a visual effect (rather than as *computer graphics* shown on a monitor), instead of hand drawn, cel animation fakery, was "Westworld". The Gunslinger android POV shots were created frame by frame and weren't ready for the initial public test screening.

[StarSlayer]

  Don't all the models come standard in Maya?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O_h6N2Qms4

[Colonol Dekker]

The 'Tiger Claw' from the wing commander movie. . . .spit at the name though.

[NGTM-1R]

I would say the Transformers models, but I doubt my computer has the storage space to hold them. It certainly can't do anything with them.

[bizzybody]

The alien ship from "Flight of the Navigator". Simple but elegant, extreme easy to texture...

[Flipside]

Yup, it's basically a metaball with environment mapping

Edit: Nearly posted that as Meatball....

[Thaeris]

Thought the movie was stupid... but the "switchblade" fighters from "Stealth" would be pretty cool.

[Narvi]

Hells yeah! "The Last Starfighter" was the first film to have scenes that were 100% CGI*. It also combined live actors with CGI. All shots in space where there were no actors visible were 100% CGI.

Due to it being a box office bomb, Atari didn't finish the game for the 5200 console (it's available for emulators, but the Gunstar has no shields) and plans for a real version of the arcade game were aborted. Had the movie made ze beeg money, Atari could've justified spending the money on what would have been the most complex and expensive arcade game ever, which would've dramatically advanced the state of the art of videogame technology.

*The very first film to use real computer graphics as a visual effect (rather than as *computer graphics* shown on a monitor), instead of hand drawn, cel animation fakery, was "Westworld". The Gunslinger android POV shots were created frame by frame and weren't ready for the initial public test screening.

You could always play the fanmade version.

[bizzybody]

I've seen that, fiddled a bit with the model in an attempt to make it more like the "real" thing.