I thought so too. It was really disappointing compared to all the amazing practical effects in Fury Road.
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_sideffect@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The trailer didn’t interest me at all with the overuse of CGI
bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
See my above comment, but fury road had a TON of CGI (maybe half or more of the action shots). People don’t realize it because by the time the movie drops production is complete and good cgi is just invisible CGI. The production on Furiosa Is still in progress when the trailer was released.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I would like to see a source regarding the TON of CGI effects used in Fury Road, because everything I’ve read and seen about it states the complete opposite.
eRac@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Pretty much all of the environment is CG, which makes nearly every shot a VFX shot automatically. Additionally, almost all shots of a vehicle in motion where the actors are acting was shot still and all motion is CG.
Practical and CG are not mutually exclusive.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You just have to look at the credits to see the army of people who worked on VFX for fury Road. I dont have time to dig up exact sources, but this guy touches on it at one point in this series:
bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think you’re completely accurate here. Do you have anything backing up your claim on the amount of CGI?
Fury Road is pretty well documented for using an inordinate amount of practical effects. Vehicles, costumes, explosions, etc. As far as I know, the most CGI was for the background/landscapes of scenes. And Furiousa’s hand of course. The quantity and the quality of CGI in Furiosa is my issue
Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
I wrote an essay on this exact thing back in college. Basically every backdrop, including every mountain range the action actually took place in was totally digitally created, furthermore many of the explosions were beefed up in post production. Some obvious stuff like the sandstorm were of course CGI too. Sometimes the ground would just be reshaped a little for the aesthetics of the final shot when it’s basically just changing desert to desert.
The thing is, practically every vehicle and person you saw was real, and most of the special effects like the explosions were real and looked incredible on the day, with things like shrapnel and the like being added in post.
Fury Road barely used CGI for the content people care about, the stuff that’s exciting to know was done for real on location. But beyond that, it was used liberally.
I’m happy with this approach and I’m curious to see how much the new film adheres to this choice.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not directly to your question, but the movie rabbit hole did a breakdown of what “no CGI” means in movies. It’s very long, but it covers a wide variety of movies, including Fury Road.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is a ton of cgi in fury road. Many of the cars that crash, environments, backdrops. Yes, there are also practical effects as well. Many productions do a mix of both. This guy does a good job of explaining the bizarre aversion to CGI that is touted in press releases for every movie that gets released today:
_sideffect@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fury road is up there with some of my favorites, so yeah I was disappointed.
I read it’s because the director is really getting up there in age and didn’t want to make production as long as the first, but who knows the real reason.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
George Miller is almost 80 now and the movie was partly shot during the pandemic. It was always going to be much more CG heavy than Fury Road. Doesn’t mean it’s bad.
solitaire@infosec.pub 1 month ago
It’s not that it’s CGI that really bothered me, it’s that it’s not good CGI. I got the same feeling watching the trailer as I did the Hobbit.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I saw the trailer on youtube when it first dropped and it legit worried me. I saw the same trailer again before Dune 2 and it looked significantly better, which was a bit encouraging. I do understand where you’re coming from though, and feel much the same myself.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
For me, it wasn’t the CGI so much as the bad green screen and compositing. CGI doesn’t even need to enter into it if you get the fundamentals wrong, and that part stuck out even in the trailers.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It is typical for trailers to be released while production is still in progress. Fury road had a TON of CGI, but it’s impossible to tell because by release the work was completed. People don’t realize how much CGI goes into movies these days and assume it’s all practical FX.
piccolo@ani.social 1 month ago
Fury road had a lot of practical effects though. Obviously there’s still a lot of cgi of shots that is either impossible to do for real, or to enhance the effects and the scene, but almost all the action was all done the same way the originals were done in the 80s.
youtube.com/watch?v=R9OQPJ5y8I0
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a mix of practical and VFX. The VFX production team on Fury road was huge. The reality is good CGI is impossible to discern from practical. There’s more to VFX than green screens.
No CGI is just invisible CGI