With Marvel Studios moving forward with
Iron Man 3, slated for summer 2013, the action is expected to amend as much as the story's quality. And although we have descent action in
The Avengers to look forward to, with our Golden Avenger taking on extraterrestrials, there's only so much that can be done to make an armor-equipped man with flying capabilities & repulsor blasts exciting; and not seem dull or tedious.
A 3D character animator, Brett Paton, whose worked on
Sin City, has produced an impressive visual effects reel with his CafeFx team, showcasing how intense and extreme Iron Man can be during battle; on the big screen.
UPDATE: Mr. Paton recently commented with the following:
"Hey guys! Thanks for checking out the video. This was actually done before the first IronMan movie went into production, and it only found its way onto Vimeo because I needed to convert my website to a better format. It was intended to try and get work on the original film, not IronMan3, but sadly the resources needed to make it photo real were never realized. I definitely agree with some of your comments that it's not as intense as what ended up on the big screen, and while I hate to give disclaimers, this was done in my spare time with a few other artists, not by a studio with millions of dollars backing it. In many ways it was abandoned. The sound effects are non-existent(save for what I put in at the time), the vfx artist dropped out so we never go the "True Lies" style machine gun raking the glass windows effect, lighting and compositing never got to the level needed, etc. The best part of it is really Phil Norwood's story board(look him up on IMDB), which was actually even longer. Anyway, thanks for having a look at something so ooooolllld. If anything, it was fun to work on, and a nice bit of nastalgia. ~Brett Paton"
IRON MAN 2005 · SPEC PIECE from Brett Paton on Vimeo.
Phil Norwood, Steve Arguello, Joe Hoback, Gabriel Vargas, Paul Griffin, Manny Guizar, Nic Spier, Domenic Digiorgio, Akira Orikasa, and David Ebner.
"The second time I worked at CafeFx, I had much more animation experience. Around November of 2004, the company decided they wanted to do a spec piece to try and get work on the upcoming IronMan film. Unfortunately this had to be done after hours and right in the middle of Sin City production. They also wanted to try and finish it by the end of the year. For me, this was a good opportunity to work on something really cool."
"Despite all the hiccups, it was a great experience for me. I'm happy with some things about it, but dissappointed more people did not participate in their respective areas, such as lighting and compositing. I really felt it could have been a much stronger piece had it looked completely "real." The final product was finished around March 2005."
What I like most is it shows Iron Man actually fighting back during a chase sequence. What do you think?