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Gowo8989 t1_j6km47a wrote

This is just awful. CGI is trash. It can’t even replicate walking or looking well. Human actors are so much cheaper than having a team do a small amount of cgi, let alone a whole movie.

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KamikazeArchon t1_j6ktvje wrote

The vast majority of CGI that you're used to seeing is 3d modeled stuff. That approaches "make a moving image" by simulating an environment, physics, and motion.

"Deepfake"-style CGI is fundamentally different in approach. It does not have a physics engine or anything like that. It is relatively very new to the scene; 3d-model CGI is nearly 50 years old.

This makes it difficult to extrapolate from one to the other.

Human no-name actors are cheap; but physical camera work of any kind is not cheap, and human celebrities are very expensive. A team working on full-CGI scenes isn't just replacing the actors for those scenes - it's replacing the makeup, costume, camera, stunt, set preparation, prop, lighting, safety, animal handling, etc. teams.

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BMXTKD t1_j6kxan5 wrote

Okay, in 15 years, we went from super Mario Bros 3 to Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

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dangler001 OP t1_j6kposm wrote

> CGI is trash. It can’t even replicate walking or looking well

have you never seen a modern movie? "looking well"? Like Avatar or Marvel or Star Wars...

Hell, there was a post showing how cgi changed an actor swearing into a pg-13 friendly version, and then into different languages.

really, everything you just said was wrong, and worse, thoughtless.

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