As most moviegoers now know, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” contains a 20-minute climactic sea battle in a massive maelstrom. There is said to be more visual effects in this one sequence than are found in many VFX-driven feature films in their entirety.

The big challenge in this “Pirates” sequence — and the new film — was the water.

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here are 3 featurettes

Imaginary forces put together this teaser for the second installment of National Treasure.

The 1:40-minute teaser, art-directed by Sean Koriakin of Imaginary Forces, opens on a CG 19th century globe.

The viewer is taken into the globe where script type – from the 18 missing pages of Booth’s diary – is revealed.

Gates (Cage) provides the voiceover, telling the story as though we are seeing the adventure in his head.

Through his deductive thought process, we follow the type where highlighted clues and symbols lead to animated images of President Lincoln and his assassination, and to various landmarks in Paris, London and the US where this global journey takes Gates and his team.

Hmmm, this is a supposedly “leaked” version of a studio trailer that shows optimus prime speaking, it looks authentic however, in the way the actors gawp at prime leads me to believe that this is just a fan made Transformer trailer.

Cgsociety has an awesome 3 page article featuring the making of Spiderman 3. includes: some of the effects and techniques they used on the film, the tools they used to create the sandman, and how the evil goo effect was conceived. Warning there are some spoilers.

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SpiderMan 3 Visual Fx

A new transformers trailer is up on yahoo, shows some autobot vs decepticon action.

HD version

Transformers Trailer Regular version

here’s the youtube television trailer: