The director, the music video veteran Tarsem Singh, created the spectacular visuals without recourse to digital imaging -- capturing actual locations in 28 countries.
This show takes a while to properly get going, winding up gradually with the darkly brooding likes of Eyes Above and Coronus, The Terminator, as the crowd stand and gawp in awe at the spectacular visuals – warped digital inkblots, shooting stars, melting skulls, all controlled on the fly by animators Strangeloop and Timeboy.
After seeing the movie, my optics remain intact, but they didn't remain immune to the virtues of George Miller's fabulous creation, which are found in an entirely different direction from the spectacular visuals that have been widely vaunted — and marketed.
"We used every technique imaginable!" Baxter explains about how they captured the spectacular visuals.
Kim Hollis of Box Office Prophets stated that "there's plenty to recommend the film – the spectacular visuals alone make Treasure Planet a worthwhile watch," though expressing disappointment because she felt that the characters were "not all that creatively rendered".
Lee Buchanan of PC Gamer US praised "the spectacular visuals that bring to life the most jarring collisions I've seen on a computer", and he noted that "[car] damage is depicted beautifully".
"It's the most spectacular visual experience I have ever seen".
In Rock Follies (1977), he achieved some of the most spectacular visual effects ever produced in a television studio: "Basically, we just twiddled all the knobs to see what would happen.
The public is so accustomed to sensationalism that the lack of spectacular visual confirmation of rape and burnings leaves an over stimulated public underwhelmed.
What places it a sizable cut above the routine it is spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick's '2001.'" -- Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune.
