Compare apples to apples
I mean, this is what your 2024 videogames look like, rendering in real time. I’d say we’ve come some distance.
And this is what CG looks like now. I’m all for repurposing this thread as an appreciation of how far scientists, engineers and artists have pushed CG in the past 30 years.
EDIT: Ugh, this stupid site’s terrible image support. Changing links.
404 file not found. Yes, that is the future of media.
I’ll be honest with you, I can see these most of the time now that I updated the links but I’ve also seen them broken in other tabs and refreshes, so don’t blame me (or CG tech), blame federation and bad design for image support.
But let me know if they’re still broken on your end, because I have no reliable way to know.
Actually Villanueve went with practical effects for that scene.
They tamed those sandworms from birth
Kinda cruel if you ask me
Biggest problem was to feed them
We can’t grasp the logistics of it!
Indeed. There still are films with good CGI, but don’t expect Disney to spend real money on a movie aimed at kids to get at their pocket money (or their parents sparetime activities budget). The kids won’t know the difference.
I thought this was a close up of a Chihuahua
From behind it seems. They are running away, but the vid is reversed.
I mean, Disney put out a casting call several years ago for little people to fill the dwarf roles for a live action Snow White. But Peter Dinklage balked at it, claiming that it was oppressive to cast little people just because they’re little and not giving them serious acting roles based on skill or merit.
However, a lot of little people in Hollywood got mad at Peter Dinklage for ruining job opportunities for them, because they’re rarely cast for anything else and they had no problem taking the roles based solely on their height.
But it was too late; Disney pulled the casting to avoid controversy and now we’re stuck with this CGI abomination to replace little people in this film.
That’s awful. A lot of people do a lot of degrading work in life… you do what you gotta do. Besides, I would imagine getting your foot in the door in a big budget movie would do tons for the rest of their careers and could have helped with getting other roles easier. Pretty sure that’s how it works for everyone in the industry. Did Peter not do anything like this?
It’s such a stupid take on his part
It’d be like a studio needing to fill a role for a black character with a black actor, putting out a casting call for black actors, then a famous black actor coming out against it.
It’s stupid and only harms those that he’s trying to help.
It’s not like the studio was just going to hire the first 7 little people to show up, they were still gonna have to try to get the role.
I’m also confused, hasn’t he had plenty of roles that were typecast for little people? The two I know him most for are Game of Thrones (a character with dwarfism in the source material) and Elf (a character who’s entire written purpose seems to be “little person that Buddy mistakes for an elf”).
Guess in reality, you first have to afford the bills before being able to afford virtue.
Peter Dinklage probably feared that other with his medical condition was able to find acting jobs and he would have to fight to find a gig then.
yeah its sorta redic of him. Its like saying they should not cast backup dancers because it oppressive to the lithe. They are decent jobs and not everyone can be a starring role.
another win for political correctness, xisters
Time to retire that term. Being “politically correct” in the US clearly means being a bigoted Christian white nationalist, judging by the most recent election.
We can thank Steve for the leaps and bounds that happened in the early 90’s with CGI - tl;dr he was a brilliant animator who snuck in under the radar at ILM and was given run of the animation department because he/his working partner literally invented many of the cutting edge animation techniques, from scratch.
Dude has a tragic story (personality disorder & alcoholism) that led to him being uncredited and blacklisted, pretty well captured in a biopic, worth the hour-ish watch imo.
- The Abyss, 1991 - Academy Award for Visual Effects
- Terminator 2, 1991 - Liquid Metal for T-1000
- Jurassic Park, 1993 - work featured throughout, with the highlight of the T-Rex’s movement and skeletal modeling
- The Mask, 1994 - Nominated for Academy Award for Visual Effect
Most of the stuff in Jurassic park is not CGI
Photorealism and stylized animation are not the same thing and are used in different contexts.
That screenshot is so blurry, there is nothing visible that would be wrong with the CGI
I read something about how the best outputs are done using a blend of make-up/models with CGI adding the layer of realism on top so pure CGI is worse but film studies pursue that because its cheaper and outsourcable compared with a heavy unionised make-up/prop workers.
I think the issue is more that a realistic human shaped like that, no matter how realistic the CGI is, will trigger the uncanny valley effect
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Yeah it’s not impressive but I think it’s stylized and it’s decent enough CG to get a pass. Pinocchio otoh, released not that long ago, that was difficult to look at.
