Special Effects & CGI in Film

uh AKU you do know that more than Half of the T-rex shots in Jurassic Park was Anamatronic right?, thats why it looked sooooo good. All physical interaction done ( steppin on car, biting wheels, bashing car) was the robotic version of t-rex

but still Jurassic Park ( 1) was a visual treat, nearly seamless integration of visual effects and robotics. To me its still perfect.

NOw dont get me started on LOTR, yes there are flaws in the movies, but down to ROTK there was only one poorly rendered scene( well by my standards). The warg was done better, the Legolas taking down the Mumkail scene had MUCH MUCH better shading than his battle with the cave troll, Gollum is amazing, the nazgul( omg are u kidding me). Barad-dur collapsing. shit man, its was wicked.

Exactly. What happened to stunts? It's half the reason I respect bad boys 2 so much. There is next to no CGI in that movie. Look at the credits and theres about 100 stuntmen but as Jerry Bruckhiemer says, if special effects are out into a scene, then the dangers gone, theres no 'living on the edge' stunts only CGI and when everyone can tell that CGI is involved they know that the camera crew are probably sitting back relaxing while making this and it really brings down a good car chase scene or fight scene or whatever.

but lets face it bad boys 1 and 2 are shit films so even if they used loads of CJI even tho they had no need to they would still b shit. It would b like polishing shit whats the point ud still have shit lol

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couple of examples to point out, if any of you happen to have the DVDs to run thru comparisons.

van helsing i would say did a "decent" job on all the cg except hyde. one of the main points in van helsing is watch the scene where the vamp gets pinned to the church steeple with arrows and dies. that scene was good and bad, the motion matches are so far off, the skeleton was poorly rendered, and the head is .. very well detached in movement.

vs, a pure CG mixture : hell boy, 2 scenes, any of the scenes w/ hellboy as an infant, and one of the best cg's i've seen : when the white lab coat guy gets flipped and thrown through the air. the upward path of the lab guy is human, the rest is cg , granted the immediate to follow cg scenes suck ( melting away in the portal )

AOTC ( SW 2 ) : the tall skinny aliens in there ( the cloners ) are beautifully done, nearly perfect i'd say, vs everything else in that movie.

the scenes in matrix reloaded specifically the burly brawl (100 agent fight ) at the VERY least they could have tried to make the transitions a little less ugly, items like neo losing 50 pounds when going to CG, the fact that his coat fabric becomes .1mil thick and is light impermeable. the "gray" that gray has to be fixed, it's in all cg scenes for some reason. guys are in black suits, and suddenly it's the CG gray.. wtf.. thought these people were professionals.

the Zion robot fight was done well because they actually put effort into it, if you watch the special features on the dvd they go into great discussion about the detail they put into it. versus the burly brawl is minimal.

"the Thing" is one of the best crafted movies of last century to my opinion in regards to FX, there's a few "buggy" items like poor stop animation scenes, but the rest is beautifully crafted. LOTR with the ghost army is one of the best cg interactions to date, although the movie is riddled with flukes everwhere else.

i dont know, this is right in that "area" i dont like about movies, either the movie is great with crap additions[matrix 3], or it's crap with great additions[battlefield earth], the mixture of the two is very rare.

PS everyone : it's CG ( computer graphics ) for movies, CGI for programming environments ( Common Gateway Interface ) for a multi purpose tool

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