Transformers The Ride 3D Goes High Tech at Universal Studios Hollywood (2012)
0Transformers The Ride - 3D delivers an amazing 4k x 4k visual experience created at ILM using NVIDIA GPUs.
Spoken in the video:
Chick Russell - Show Producer, Universal Creative
Jeff White - Visual Effects Supervisor, ILM
Transformers: The Ride 3D (or simply Transformers: The Ride) is a 3D dark ride located at Universal Studios Singapore, Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Studios Florida, and Universal Studios Beijing. Based on the Transformers film franchise, the ride was designed by Universal Creative, Oceaneering International, and Industrial Light & Magic. Each installation is reported to have cost US$100 million. Universal Studios Singapore was the first to open the ride.
The dark ride consists of motion platform-mounted vehicles that follow a 2,000-foot-long (610 m) track. Throughout the ride, screens up to 60 feet (18 m) high project 3D images of various Transformers characters as the Autobots attempt to protect the AllSpark from the Decepticons.
Transformers: The Ride-3D is an immersive, next-generation thrill ride blurring the line between fiction and reality. Fusing HD 3D media and flight simulation technology, this epic ride creates an experience unlike anything this planet has ever seen.
Based on the popular movie franchise, this mind-blowing Transformers adventure puts you in the middle of the ultimate war zone.
Fight alongside Optimus and try to survive as you protect the AllSpark from Decepticons over four stories tall. Remember, the future of the human race is counting on you.
Prepare for the Greatest Battle You'll Ever Ride.
Cast
Andrew Arrabito – Military
Pilar Holland – Sonya Bradley
Corey Klemow – Theodore Stallworth
Ezra Masters – Sergeant Dees
Glenn Morshower – General Morshower
Voices
Charlie Adler – Starscream
Peter Cullen – Optimus Prime
Robert Foxworth – Ratchet
Jess Harnell – Ironhide
Tom Kenny – Wheelie
Dustin Leighton – Evac
James Remar – Sideswipe
Frank Welker – Megatron, Grindor
NVIDIA Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. It is a software and a fabless company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing, as well as systems on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia is a global leader in artificial intelligence hardware and software. Its professional line of GPUs is used in workstations for applications in architecture, engineering and construction, media and entertainment, automotive, scientific research, and manufacturing design.
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm. Lucas founded and was created when he began production on the original Star Wars, now the fourth episode of the Skywalker Saga.
ILM originated in Van Nuys, California, then moved to San Rafael in 1978. Since 2005 it has been based at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired ILM as part of its purchase of Lucasfilm.
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