crappy CGI
Did anyone else notice the crappy 3D scenes in this movie? they were awful! I enjoyed the movie but it could've been better without the CGI.
shareThe CGI was actually state-of-the-art for 1998... it only looks "crappy" (god, I HATE THAT WORD!!) in retrospect.
The thing that has always annoyed me about any kind of CGI in animated movies is when they juxtapose it with normal 2-d snimation. Like, say, the building backgrounds in the old Spiderman animated series. The difference is SO jarring, it takes me out of "Enjoy" mode and puts me into "critical" mode.
I know it's primitive compared to the current standard. I guess I was referring to the way in which it was used. It's tacky to have a 2D scene followed by a brief 3D scene not only cuz it's jarring, as you pointed out, but it's distracting and gives the movie a sense of discontinuity.
shareI'm glad you realize its a bad idea to do that.. now if we could just get Hollywood to recognize that ^_^
My pet peeve in life, though, is people who use "crap", "crappy", or "craptastic" as descriptive terms. The English language is so rich, with many many terms to say what we mean and be specific... better than 70 % of our language is descriptive. Do we really need to say "crappy" when we don't like something?
Well, excuse my crudity, i'll be more eloquent next time.
shareHollywood has come a long way with CGI. Just watch an ol' 80s movie like Star Trek: Wrath of Khan or something to see how far advanced we have gotten since then. Though we have come a long way, there is still kinks in the armor of CGI that must be worked out, resolved, or mistakes learned from like the Spiderman thing that you have pointed out. But there will always be something that CGI does wrong because we are always throwing things at the wall hoping they might stick and in this case it didn't so Hollywood must learn from that.
shareWhat does CGI satnd for anyway?
shareComputer Generated Image(ry)
"When I found out that I'd been cloned; I was just beside myself."
Im just curious if you like the show Futurama. Because that show uses(used)2D animation and CGI integrated together in alot of shots. I dare you tell me which ones. Well now that you know you could pick them out. But most people dont know that it contains both CGI and standard animation.
shareThe reason for the use of cgi is that its dificult to animate cars, buildings, anything when the camera is moving just look at the shots that contain cgi they are always a scene where the camera is moving. Also cars are hard to animate because when they turn its hard to keep prespective right. Look at some of the old cartoons of even batman and in many scenes youll see the batmobile looks as though its made of ruber. They got CGI right in the batman toons after the redesign look at the episode "over the edge" the animation is spectacular and alot of it is CGI. Once you take into acount what I said youl spot cgi in cartoons easily. Beauty and the beast used some CGI but in that it is almost invisible they really did a good job it looks even better than some of the new justice league stuff.
shareI know what you mean. In the Batman:TAS Vol. Bruce even states that it was hard to animate the Batmobile when it was swerving in some episodes. CGI would help solve that problem.
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