Comment on No VFX in ‘Oppenheimer’? “Clearly Not True” Says Film’s Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because bad practical effects still tend to look better than bad CGI. At the very least, you can laugh at the funny costumes.

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• teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Practical effects age better. Compare The TRex in Jurassic Park vs any of the effects George Lucas added to Star Wars. Even with 5 more years of computer advancement the TRez looks great today and the special editions look like bantha dung.

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  • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The CGI that removed cars in the background will still have removed cars in the background and you wouldn’t have noticed.

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    • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s true. I was speaking more to additive CGI.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Removal is additive.

        They have to add stuff to where the cars are. If they only removed the car there would be a blank spot where the car was.

        You won’t believe how much is invisibly added digitally in seemingly simple movies these days.

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  • detun3d@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jurassic Park’s T-Rex also used CGI. This video explains a little. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UuQxjFpfU Good CGI is wonderful as are good practical effects. A great team working together from the start so results look believable is key. Bad CGI often comes from not preparing scenes ahead of time to include it.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ageing badly fascinates me because the effect itself doesn't change, our perception of it does.

    My memories of Morrowwind are of an amazing landcape; but if I fire it up I'm looking at a bunch of dingy polygons.

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• Niggling__Niggard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Counterpoint:
  The Thing (1982) vs The Thing (2011)

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  • null@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Go on

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• gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In general I agree with your point, but CGI blood is almost never invisible and generally looks like shit. Almost as bad as CGI fire.

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  • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Huge agree. Biggest mistake Clive Barker made in Midnight Meat Train was allowing the use of all that stupid looking cgi blood.

    (and yes I’m aware that he was just a producer. As if they don’t get a say.)

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• Nihilore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When it comes to invisible VFX I always think of this video. Fincher is a practical guy but who uses VFX in way most people don’t even realise

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=Di4Byf1EzRE

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• cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t get why people fetishize practical effects and the absence of CGI.

  Have you seen the Thing? or the early works of David Cronenberg? What about the movie Society?

  Practical effects are an artwork and can look incredible.

  CG is also an artwork but it has a very different look to it because it’s a completely different medium.

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