Say no to CGI
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- mrswilson0
you gotta stick with the ancient ways. The old-school ways. I know you understand me.
- mantrakid0
Mad inspiring; great job man.
- albums0
qbn's visual effect hipsters are showing themselves
Without CGI, there's no way that panned movie Battleship would have looked so good.
Decry the story all you want but that movie looked fucking great.
Looking toward the future, being modern; it's all stopping dead in it's tracks here for the technology of yesteryear.
Makes sense ://, though you probably update your hardware and software at least bi-yearly.
- lodef0
i am of the opinion that there is still a shit load of ground left to be covered in the non-CGI/VFX world that has been effectively abandoned in favour of pure digital rendering.
- lodef0
http://www.nfb.ca/film/creative_…
'A cinematic genius who made films without cameras and music without instruments, McLaren produced 60 films in a stunning range of styles and techniques...'
people like Norman McLaren and all sorts of experimental and mainstream SFX artists from the 60s and 70s. there's an entire thread on oldschool fx around somewhere.
I watched Mad Max the other night and realized there will never be a movie made in quite the same way. There are tonnes of car stunts, explosions and flying shots made for real. a producer would freak out making it these days.
- mekk0
can't watch it in germany, is there a 2nd link, maybe vimeo?
- nb0
Fantastic!
- nthkl0
:)
- oey0
no!
- loool0
I think that CG is mainly used for commercial films and for showing of, which is from my point of view : wrong. Investing so much money for RnD, artist overtimes, and who knows how much researches just to make Transformers, Hulk, Avengers or whatever superhero shit movie which makes you run away screaming from the cinema is really not cool. But it's not always like that: Gaspar Noe used it for Enter the Void and made (again in my opinion) a masterpiece full of rich and groundbreaking imagery which he would hardly accomplish using different methods. What is good is that CG slowly gets out of the "rich guys club" and now we are starting to see studios which can make pretty decent renders for not so much cash, which brings us to the situation that we have fine CG in some less commercial films or series. The numbers of young and willing to experiment directors is increasing and the technology is becoming available to them. It should blossom at some point where we will watch really groundbreaking stuff made by experimental artistic directors, which should lead to something exciting (CG in Melancholia from Von Trier, beginning of Tree of Life etc.). Again I am pointing out that CG today is used mainly for showing of in situations where it's maybe not even needed and for shitty movies, but saying no to CG just for the sake of it while probably using all the technology available to you like computer, internet, camera, cellphone etc is maybe a bit rigid in my opinion. CG is a visual expression, which will lead to new stuff, and I don't see any reason why I would say no to it...
- mrswilson0
Gareth Edwards - please make a low budget movie again like Monsters. Remember you filmed a model boat in your bath tub...
- fadein110
aceness. love it. tomato-esque
- spendogg0
fucking dope! i want to do that.
- BaskerviIle0
How did you do the type?
How did you edit the video?Surely those things were computer generated?
- mrswilson0
You got me. Rename to 'really trying hard to say no to CGI' :)
- benfal990
inspiring!
thanks for sharing!
- attentionspan0
great, would love to see your take on transformers and avatar