Why does modern CGI look so bad? I swear it looks considerably worse than it did 15 years ago. It might be more detailed, but with the choices being made everything looks like a fucking cartoon now. I just watched Alien Covenant and the second it switched to a space scene it looked cheap and shitty compared to the pretty decent set design going on elsewhere.
It's the same for the new Star Trek and Star Wars films. The stuff that is actually filmed looks ok but the CGI stuff looks totally different and not aesthetically consistent. Would it really be so hard to build a decent model these days with 3D printing? The set design going on in some modern films is out of this world, surely it can't be that hard to make some models, film them and composite them digitally?
>>87255572
it depends on how they use cgi, most of the artists dont know how to use this shit. But some do better at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24&t=46s
>>87255826
That's a perfect use of it but I'd argue it's the exception rather than the norm.
This video makes me sad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9zDQQ3uNAE
>>87255572
cgi is cheap now. back in the day cgi was expensive so it had to be good, or else not worth the $$$
>>87256069
It has always deeply triggered me that Jurrasic Park merchandise never used the designs you see in the actual movie. These longsleeves are fucking cool.
>>87256380
>These longsleeves are fucking cool.
only autists wear those...
>>87256932
Maybe in the US, longsleeves are relatively cool in the UK.
>>87256932
When you get to a certain age long sleeves become attractive. When you start to notice people your age with the little white scars where the beginnings of skin cancer was cut away, long sleeves suddenly seem like a good idea.
depends on use. if it is GCI-shitfest fight, sure. but proper CGI-makeup like this is, based on practical, just buffed up, is great
>>87258156
That's fine for fantasy stuff. Sci-fi should feel real though. I just do not understand what's so hard about compositing model spacecraft. They have few moving parts, they're not especially hard to make. It can't be that expensive to have models in scifi films.
>>87255572
It's the jump from movies using 24 fps to 48 fps.
It makes minor inconsistencies easier to point out, and that shit adds up.
>>87255572
Bad color grading on movies an effect too.
>>87255572
>wasting millions on CGI when audiences have shown they will accept subpar shit anyway
>>87256932
>>87257002
Long sleeves are not autistic. It's cool if you have long sleeves and roll them half way up, but just wearing them normally otherwise isn't autistic, especially if it's fall.
Lets post examples of good, or in this case, GREAT cgi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1rS_UAvjs
>>87259210
God damn i love Davy Jones
such a B A S E D character
>>87259181
You don't have to tell me, I'm wearing this rn
>>87259210
That's acceptable for sure, because it doesn't look out of place for the film. There's something particularly jarring about the shift from space to non space in recent sci-fi and it's inexcusable.
>>87259089
>It's the jump from movies using 24 fps to 48 fps.
Except that apart from The Hobbit, movies are all 24fps and no industry-wide jump to 48fps has happened yet.
>>87255572
When it started out in the 90s it was a lot more expensive and so it was only really used for shots that couldn't be realized with physical/practical effects. They were also more conscious of its limitations and worked around them.
Then, computers improved and more people went into computer animation so the price of the hardware and labor went down so people got greedy and started using it as an excuse to not actually build a sets, just big green rooms.
Tbh the only CGI in Covenant that bothered me was when the Xeno walked into the Terra forming bay toward the end.
>>87259875
It has that weird blurry/glowy look that I can't understand. Battlefront 2's space combat honestly looks better than Rogue One and TFA for the same reason.
>>87260205
Ignore the size of the picture but this is exactly what I mean. Even in 4k this still looks really unnatural and cartoonish.
>>87260205
>>87260301
Both of you are retarded
>>87260559
no u
I guess you could argue about Star Wars Episode VII with the CGI (though I thought it was pretty good). But I honestly think that Rogue One's CGI was pretty fucking awesome. Especially since it looked like they used CGI based on the models from the original trilogy. The Star Destroyers namely.