Them: "The CGI in The Flash (2023) is some of the worst CGI I've ever seen put to film."
Me: "Ugh. They always say that shit. People always have to find something to complain about, and it's never as bad as they say."
watches The Flash in HD
Me: "Oh. Oh my gods. Why do the babies look like dolls that have been left out in the sun to melt? And that dog! What's wrong with its FACE!? It looks like Milo from The Mask, while he was wearing the mask! Why does Batman look like he's wearing Jay Leno's chin with black marker used to mark his beard stubble? Holy fucking shit."
I've re-watched the original Beauty and the Beast recently and the CG ballroom is awesome. Especially the many reflections. #Disney introduced #CGI onto the big screen in a way that didn't show any shortcomings or limits of that tech. They immediately went to a level that even now looks very polished.
(caveat: I don't know the details. If somebody in the know told me "the reflections were actually hand-painted by 1000 monkeys because CG couldn't do it yet" I'm happy to correct myself 😉)
If you're a fan of Phil Tippet and Tippet Studio (and you should be) or special effects in general, the fantastic 500-page "Mad Dreams and Monsters", documenting Phil & Co.'s work, is 80% off at the moment. https://a.co/d/2zcKCbU#cgi#stopmotion
This evening I was talking with @rm4 about #Tron Legacy, a #film which we highly suggest watching if you haven't already!
So, I thought about re-watching it but suddenly youtube showed me this #documentary about it, so I pressed play and enjoyed a nice and inspiring mid hour of #BehindTheScenes !
Take a watch if you know the film or if you are interested in the #MakingOf !
Somewhere in the UK, five years ago, Erwin Saunders started posting his encounters in the woods with the fae. Regardless of the veracity of Mr. Saunders' videos, they're remarkable pieces of work, bridging the gap between the believable and fantastic....
"Old-school practical effects date back to the silent era and are created with artistry and care. Is the novelty of #CGI green-screen action wearing off in favour of craft models?" #VFX
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I wonder if the 1974 movie "The Godfather Part II" would have been anywhere near as good or as memorable if it had been a computer-generated de-aged 50-year-old Marlon Brando playing Vito Corleone as a young man rather than a real-life 30-year-old Robert De Niro (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance)? (This is a rhetorical question - I'm pretty certain most of us know the answer)
Also, the article below gives me a better understanding of the Star Trek: The Next Generation 1989 & 1991 episodes "Booby Trap" (where Geordi La Forge creates a very life-like hologram of Dr. Leah Brahms, the engineer who designed the Enterprise's warp drive, and falls in love with his computer-generated creation) & "Galaxy's Child" (where a year or so later the real Dr. Brahms comes aboard the Enterprise & is extremely unimpressed when she finds out La Forge had created a holographic likeness of her & romantically interacted with it).
"If a studio has the kit, not to mention the balls, to deepfake Tom Hanks into a movie he didn’t agree to star in, then it has the potential to upend the entire industry as we know it. It’s one thing to have your work taken from you, but it’s another to have your entire likeness swiped.
The issue is already creeping in from the peripheries. The latest Indiana Jones movie makes extensive use of de-ageing technology, made by grabbing every available image of Harrison Ford 40 years ago and feeding it into an algorithm. Peter Cushing has been semi-convincingly brought back to life for Star Wars prequels, something he is unlikely to have given permission for unless the Disney execs are particularly skilled at the ouija board. ITV’s recent sketch show Deep Fake Neighbour Wars took millions of images of Tom Holland and Nicki Minaj, and slapped them across the faces of young performers so adeptly that it would be very easy to be fooled into thinking that you were watching the real celebrities in action."
The DigiPro conference has just posted their program and it looks fantastic (again!) Presentation about #Avatar The Way of Water, ILM's StageCraft, Strange World, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and presentations about matte painting, USD, materials and more. Keynote by Marlon West about 100 years of the marriage between art and tech at #Disney#VFX#CG#CGI#VirtualProduction#SIGGRAPH#DigiPro
Professional Pixie Hunter, Erwin Saunders - First Sighting of a Pixie (www.youtube.com)
Somewhere in the UK, five years ago, Erwin Saunders started posting his encounters in the woods with the fae. Regardless of the veracity of Mr. Saunders' videos, they're remarkable pieces of work, bridging the gap between the believable and fantastic....
TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on GENERATION 2 (www.youtube.com)
This week, we're bodaciously blasting back to the gnarly 1990s in a extreme episode courtesy of riotously radical Patreon supporter Dad Brad, who wanted the ...
"My favorite thing about low poly is how much you can imply with so little..."
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