SMALL SOLDIERS Behind-the-Scenes - The Ultimate Toys 

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Said 9 year's ago lol

Why would I agree with that? CGI looks better, more realistic AND is cheaper... I agree with environments somewhat. Models of buildings, instead of their 3D counterparts, has something going for them. But for characters? No way!

Henrik Kragh Look, I'm not hating on CGI, I don't hate it at all. I'm just saying that it shouldn't be just the only way to create special effects in film & TV. There still has to be room and a market for the old techniques such as Practical FX and even Hand-Drawn Animation. They should co-exist with CGI. I'm saying that because very time I turn around, there's something CG coming and I'm wondering 'Don't people in Hollywood have any love and/or respect for the old techniques?' Yes, CG is cheaper, but the people in Hollywood should seriously give the old ways that are tried, true, and still working more chances. That's all I'm saying.

velociraptor4you Of course Hollywood respects the old techniques. That's why when it's better they'll use the old techniques. But Stan Winston himself saw that CGI was superior to a lot of what he was doing when they started working on Jurassic Park... 2 decades ago. There's respecting an old technique and there's using the best technique. There's an entire position called VFX Supervisor who largely decides how most effectively to deliver a shot whether that's practical or CG. Look at all of the armature and puppet controls coming out of the puppets in this making-of. You have to paint all of that out or find a way to hide it in your camera angles. That's not a trivial amount of "CG" right there so even if you used practical it would still be a ton of CG paint and roto to "fix" the practical. I've encountered many situations where a director insists on shooting practical... and then we have to project and paint and roto so much clean up that 90% of it is CG anyway and the 10% left looks worse than just going full CG. In fact I've also seen a ton of "practical shots" where 100% of it was CG because the cleanup was just going to be more arduous than starting from scratch. Lastly, Small Soldiers looks great... but smalls soldiers for its day was a pretty CG heavy film. You might be nostalgic for shots that were mostly CG already.

Gavin Greenwalt You know what? I never really thought of that whole part of Practical FX. That there's a heavy amount of CG work (digital paint & rotoscope) that goes into "erasing" a Practical prop's controls so that the end result looks like an organic character. Now that I think about it, a lot of 90s movies that I saw involving Practical FX (because I'm a 90s kid) such as "Small Soldiers" here are more CG-heavy than I realized. And I actually remember watching a behind-the-scenes documentary about "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" where I think John Rosengrant was talking about using digital paint & roto to erase the external controls of some of the Stan Winston dinosaurs, such as the rods & wires for the Compy puppets. Thank you, really.

Very true Gavin Greenwalt, though we're all fans of Practical FX, the huge advances in CGI just make our jobs cooler and better. We can put puppeteers closer to the action, we can worry less about hydraulic cables and rods. The best effects are hybrids: invisible blend of CGI and Practical. - David

i did too except i ended up paying more attention to the gorgonites and ended up liking them ^^

EclipseHedgehog well the creatures were okay ..but i liked the commandos more ..i disliked the fact the got destroyed at the end ..they could have been just deactivated ..since PEM doesn't destroy anything ..it just deactivate electronics .

That's the point.

What I'm wondering is, that why someone hasn't made actual toys based off the ones off the movie, that actually walks, talks, battles, and have actual intelligence instead of artificial intelligence, it'd be perfect for the anniversary of the movie series, do you think that would be a good idea?

the Don of Creativity It would be amazing, but only if they would cost less than £25 each (or your nationality's equivalent). It would still probably be far too expensive to be marketed as a toy.

uburton You mean about $40.00 (or $39.19 to be pricise)?, well I would be for both fans of war toys and fans of robotics, so it would make sense if it was somewhere between $35.00 & $50.00, don't you think?

the Don of Creativity I was thinking more about toys, aimed at kids, rather than high-end models. What you're describing could probably cost thousands.

uburton wow guy....here probably would cost 99 $ reals ..lol shit....

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They hide the rods with camera angles that show as little as possible- and they go in and paint out the rods in post production.

The Garage Monster DVD had a rod puppet too. The rod puppet for the Bear in the movie A.I. is what I would like to see made.

AlphaProto I'll second that.

+CADENA ONLINE mix of CGI AND PRATICAL

Yeah, they should try to remake this series, and use this kind of animatronic technology and great interaction with the toy and the player that is like the toy actually had real intelligence instead of artificial intelligence (without the wires, of coarse), it can be made by hasbro, have all 6 of the Gorgonites and all 6 of the Commandos that is just like from the movie, and it can be made to celebrate the movie's 15th anniversary what do you think, would that be a good idea for a toyline?

MKN4EVERR yeah man ..like the toys of this movie was not like the actual toys used in the film wth ....they just needed to make the exact same model and stuff ...the toys where great. i wanted to have the actuall characters when i was a kid watching that movie ..

+MKN4EVERR yes ..the ball jointed shoulders are perfect ..

They did a company called soft garage made them but I think they only made certain characters

That would cost to much money

Actually, they used them. :) - Balázs

MrJohnffrey87 lol. ..because it wasn't a real one. .they had to create their own .

They´ll never tell you or they kill you, bet it!!

James Cameron and Stan Winston started Digital Domain together before Winston's passing.

And was sold after while

Tanel Murd a few of the shots of the toys in the movie WERE puppets.