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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teft@startrek.website 10 months agoPractical 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.
detun3d@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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livus@kbin.social 10 months 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.
Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A perfect example of this is in Terminator 1, the brief shot of Arnold in the mirror of the hotel. It’s so obviously inconsistent with the animatronics that, had they just spent more time on Arnold’s makeup they would have nailed it.
I know for a fact practical effects were up to par in 1984.
livus@kbin.social 10 months ago
Can't say I remember that, but I will look out for it next time I watch.
strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Indeed compare the original Star Wars 3 films compared to episodes 1, 2, 3.
The practical effects are much more seamless
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 10 months ago
The CGI that removed cars in the background will still have removed cars in the background and you wouldn’t have noticed.
teft@startrek.website 10 months ago
That’s true. I was speaking more to additive CGI.
Steve@communick.news 10 months 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.
teft@startrek.website 10 months ago
Now I feel lied to even more by hollywood.