Here was a review sent in from the Super Snooper, who sniffed out this review on some newsgroup somewhere. Wherever he found it, it sure is great cause I haven't seen another test screening review. This is it, the only one I've seen. If you've seen it, hey, let's hear about it. Only several bajillion fans want to know, ya know! So thanks to the Super Snooper, and whoever it was in the land of Knot that wrote the original!!!
I was able to see a test screening of the new "Lost In Space" movie last Monday in Camarillo, CA. Gary Oldman plays Dr. Smith, and not unlike Jonathan Harris in the first few episodes of the original series before he turned into a total sissy, he's a real son of a bitch.
Anyway, the CGI stuff in the film is going to be quite amazing when it's finished...alot of it was still not fully textured...flat rendered models, preliminary (or at least what appeared to be preliminary) textures on creatures and machines. Even some storyboard illustrations were still being used for establishing shots and the like.
The stuff that was completed, the morphing battle armour (you've all seen that act before...but it's still cool), the launch of the Jupiter 2 (a good surprise in there!), the destruction of a derelict ship named The Proteus, and the climatic escape _through_ a planet as it self-destructs, is really first rate. There's lots more that was still unfinished (spider creatures for instance, and the fate of Dr. Smith) that will also be top-drawer stuff when completed.
Now, as for LightWave's role in this, I have no idea. But what I thought might be interesting to the group was the fact that in the script, prior to the launch of the Robinson family, a voice over announces that the Silicon Graphics Corporation is one of the sponsors of the voyage. "Wow!" said I to my girlfriend. "Talk about product palcement!"
So who knows if LightWave was used or not...but I'll betcha dollars to donuts it was all done on SGI workstations!
