I agree with the OP's arguements on all points. When i first saw this films granted i said it was better than all the live action RE films combined, however i did heavily state to people that CGI was not their strong point.
Also i do believe that one can make a better CGI film than this, on terms of improving on the argued points. Infact in the industry there are much better CGI films out there. Think about ti as well, CGI films takes well over a year or two (even more) to complete, i was suprised that at the end of the release of RE - Afterlife that there was ging to be a CGI film of the series and which was in development, and it was probably only around a year later that this film was released. You can tell it was rushed and not alot of effort went into it, interms of the argued points once again.
It even suprises me that the designs of the characters where completely unoriginal, as in, the way that Leon and Claire looked was completely different from their previous appearances. This really upsetted me because this film was made by 'Capcom' who inturn are the people who made the Resident Evil games, unless it was a totally different division in the company, but i dont think it is so hard for one to pass on character models from the game to be used in the films. I personally think Capcom is slacking big time.
Animation wise, of emotions, facial expressions etc. was horrible. Originally i thought it was because it was a japanese film dubbed into english, hence i grabbed myself the japanese dubbed, and i can tell you this, i probably spend almost an hour comparing the two dubs and i was seeing that the japanese dub wasnt matching onsync, i was thinking i could be wrong and continued comparing until i saw the time, and i concluded cold-heartedly, that nothing is wrong with the dubs, its the lip-syncing animations. The G-Virus monster in this film look ridiculous, also as in ridiculously big and highly exagerated compared to William Birkin.
Body movements were okay, but i can still see some small improvements that can be done here and there. Everything else surrounding this was good, CG models of the environments, buildings and so on were nicely put together. Lighting in some scenes did help give a helm of realism but overall, even with the photorealistic skin textures in some characters are let down by poor animations, also everyone seems to look really perfect, like if ti was a glamour magazine, hardly realistic, if i can recall, i dont remember seeing any sort of dirt on people after all the tragic happening. Also, even clothing in many people didnt seem convincing, its hard to tell what fabric is what from one character to another, they all seemed to be all polished or shiny, another let down im afraid.
I even praise the use of its cinematography, i felt it kept is traditionally conventional therefore it felt like a good film. Another point also is the story, nothing stupid like the live-action films, this purely continues the original story of the RE games, and it was really great to see zombies for the first time after Resident Evil Remake for the Gamecube, if not then Resident Evil Code Veronica back in 2000, and that we could probably see how the original creators wanted their Resident Evil zombies to be portrayed onscreen, unlike the live-action film's 'Liquid' zombies, and recent zombie films that are entirely aggressive.
Despite all if this, i did enjoy the film, even stating it is better than all the live-action films combined, purely because it kept it original, and i didnt let the CGI get in my way, because i knew it wasnt their strong point, however i must admit, i gained this assumption when i first saw the first trailer that came out, seeing that the CGI wasnt all that and initially thought 'probably the animations and CGI isnt finished or complete' until i saw the secopnd trailer, which dissapointed me how crappy it looked, so from that i knew what visuals i was expecting. Story is key and the MOST important thing to every film! and thats wat sold it to me, could have been better yes but i can tell this would be continued in RE5, but it was satisfying.
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