Part of it is the color, it's fantastic. What the hell is that color? It's not red, it's not orange... and it has some added... not metallic?... I dunno.
Anyway, I now watching the DVD documentaries for the movie, and I'm impressed with the work which went into making the suits, both CGI and real suits. Astounding amounts of work, and a great result.
Also if you think you can spot when it is CGI and when it's real, give it up, not even those who worked on it can tell anymore.
One false note, right at the end: "Samu El Jackson" as Nick Fury? Oh noooooo. I'm so tired of that guy. He's not bad, but he has the range of a penny whistle.
Top speed: 399 km/h. Holy mackarel!
ReplyDeleteNo kidding. I doubt I'd have the nuts to drive that fast. Or the reaction time.
ReplyDeleteCrap, that'd make my 20 minute commute take under a minute. But there'd be bodies strewn everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI think that colour looks like it could be 'candy apple red', or so watching them paint on far too many episodes of American Chopper would have me believe. Orange base and a metallic red overcoat.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. They do this?
ReplyDeleteActually looking a second time, the copy they have in the film is actually orange. It's also gorgeous, but I think I may like this one even more.
OK, I have to admit I'm a little proud of my perception of this thing, "It's not red, it's not orange... and it has some added... not metallic?..."
ReplyDeleteIt would appear to me as if they are using color-shifting paint. These are relatively new, and are often used to create shifts from red or blue to purple depending on the viewing angle.
ReplyDeleteSuch wide color shifts usually leave me a gimmicky, gadget-like impression, but I always suspected that if used with subtlety, those coatings could yield beautiful results, as is the case here.
Anon's guess seems likely. If the red layer is transparent, the orange would shine more through at direct viewing angles, and this would give color variations.
ReplyDeleteHere's one for you Eolake. Just Google-SSC Ultimate Aero- and feast your eyes on another American machine.Jay Leno has a review on Jay Lenos Garage at the Popular Mechanics website. CJG of Eroticalee
ReplyDeleteThat anon (candy-apple annon) was me. Darn blog didnt take my name for some strange reason. I blame poltergeist.
ReplyDeleteNope, that wasn't me, guv'nor, honest.
ReplyDelete'Twas Peeves, awright, he got booted from Hogwarts for using acidic Republican speech juice in his water bombs an' meltin' a couple o' students' faces off. Went off muttering something 'bout "goin' digital on sum arses" an' "playin' ghost in the shell with sum british belfry log"...
Me, oi rispect mister Thud ever since oi met his great ancestor Than Of The Oceans. Aye, he was sumthin' fer sure, that Levia Than. That old batty blighter Ahab felt it comin' thru his cracked floatin' nutshell.
That's Red Gold On Fire, with a nuance of Frerrari Blood for extra spice. Even mexican machoes wince when they see that color.
ReplyDeleteEspecially on a jalapeño pepper...
Eo timed...
"I doubt I'd have the nuts to drive that fast. Or the reaction time."
Yeah, but ya hafta admit it: what a way to go!
The Dissonance rear-viewed...
"But there'd be bodies strewn everywhere."
What, you never played Carmageddon?