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Building a Better 'Bot: Behind the Scenes With the Transformers

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Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had to be built from the ground up. That effort took hundreds of artists, thousands of hours and even caused one computer to explode. We lost some machinery, visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar said with a smile. The thing just kind of gave up.

Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up. That effort took hundreds of artists, thousands of hours and even caused one computer to explode. "We lost some machinery," visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar said with a smile. "The thing just kind of gave up." A high-tech blockbuster, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is practically two movies in one. There's the live-action element, which took director Michael Bay and his cast to Egypt, Jordan and New Mexico.

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