Then there is the CGI..... When the CGI worked (done by one of the better of the 10 VFX houses they used for the effects), they were effective, to me in the mass flight scenes with the contrails - a lot of that looked OK to me. That said, most of the combat sequences sucked. Video game scenes that were nothing like what the 8th AF actual…
Then there is the CGI..... When the CGI worked (done by one of the better of the 10 VFX houses they used for the effects), they were effective, to me in the mass flight scenes with the contrails - a lot of that looked OK to me. That said, most of the combat sequences sucked. Video game scenes that were nothing like what the 8th AF actually faced, aligned with such poorly done B-17 damage scenes that I suspect no one at any of the VFX houses had ever flown in an airplane or looked at much real WW2 combat footage. And so much of it was sloppy - B-17 propellers turning the wrong way, control surfaces misaligned.....what were they thinking? Where was the "script girl".....? The writing was not my style, but as I posted elsewhere, my $300 million was tied up in pork bellies, so Apple got the shot at this series..... It could have been so much better. The last couple of episodes were obviously rushed, but I did like the last four minutes - the departure of the 100th BG's B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts back to the US. It was a poignant moment and I thought the CGI was pretty good, but again in the last sequence, when Cleven's and Egan's B-17 turned onto the runway, the elevators were misaligned..... Sigh.
Then there is the CGI..... When the CGI worked (done by one of the better of the 10 VFX houses they used for the effects), they were effective, to me in the mass flight scenes with the contrails - a lot of that looked OK to me. That said, most of the combat sequences sucked. Video game scenes that were nothing like what the 8th AF actually faced, aligned with such poorly done B-17 damage scenes that I suspect no one at any of the VFX houses had ever flown in an airplane or looked at much real WW2 combat footage. And so much of it was sloppy - B-17 propellers turning the wrong way, control surfaces misaligned.....what were they thinking? Where was the "script girl".....? The writing was not my style, but as I posted elsewhere, my $300 million was tied up in pork bellies, so Apple got the shot at this series..... It could have been so much better. The last couple of episodes were obviously rushed, but I did like the last four minutes - the departure of the 100th BG's B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts back to the US. It was a poignant moment and I thought the CGI was pretty good, but again in the last sequence, when Cleven's and Egan's B-17 turned onto the runway, the elevators were misaligned..... Sigh.