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Transformers by the numbers

Written by Barbara Vancheri on .

Our review of "Transformers:  Revenge of the Fallen" will appear Wednesday but in the meantime, here are some facts courtesy of Paramount Pictures:

COOL FACTS

  • 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
  • If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
  • Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
  • Devastator's hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches a pyramid.
  • The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
  • All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
  • Devastator's parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
  • If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

DISK SPACE

  • Trans1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space.  Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. 
  • 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs.  Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

RENDERING TIMES

  • If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago to finish for this year's premiere.
  • A single IMAX shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
  • IMAX frame render times:  As high as 72 hours per frame!

IMAX

  • Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
  • Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
  • IMAX frame render times:  As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM SCREEN TIME

  • ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

DEVASTATOR

  • Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
  • Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
  • Laid out end to end, Devastator's parts would be almost 14 miles long.

DEVASTATOR TOTALS

  • Number of geom pieces: 52632
  • The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
  • The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
  • The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles

  

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