Devastator from #Transformers Revenge of the Fallen was the biggest creature ILM had ever done up to that point. It was so complex and so heavy that it melted a couple computers of the artists at ILM. The first time they showed Devastator to Michael Bay he said that it needed to be bigger and more detailed, so ILM went back and almost doubled him in size and complexity. ILM artists decided that the Devastator asset should be comprised of multiple different rigs, the two arms, the two legs, the torso, and the head. Exactly like it is in the final movie. Fun facts: • He was over 100 feet tall • He was made up of 52,632 individual parts • If laid out, all of his parts would add up to 14 miles long • Devastators hand travels at 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid • The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than ILMs previous largest rigid body simulation Devastator was the second most complex asset ever in the Transformers franchise, second only to the Driller Bot from Dark of the Moon. A lot of the projects I work on today are very large scale and complex and I still run into computation and data management challenges in 2024. This gives me a massive amount of respect for the work done by ILM all the way back in 2008-2009 for this film. Truly mind blowing technical and creative artistry! CREDITS Video by Paramount VFX by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)