Question about multimillion dollar sci-fi movies

[Gorn Captain]

I've always hated CGI used on spaceships

To me, their movements are TOO soft and fluid ...
The jerkiness of mounted model filmed with a motion control camera brings more life and feel into a moving spaceship.

Also, CGI spaceships reflect light weirdly.
I think the makers overdue it and always put too much shine on the ships.
CGI ships are always in the perfect spot ... which is another thing that makes them unrealistic.

I don't know what it is, but the texture on CG ships is often different than a physical model. They often use a certain type of grey that gives it a "painted" look. The depth of the CG model is sometimes also lacking. When it feels "painted" to me, I feel like I'm watching a cartoon.
But we're back in the CG/no CG thread, of course....

[mego73]

The CGI done for movies is more exacting (ideally) then the stuff even done for shows in High Definition video.

The bigger the screen, the more time you have to spend on each CGI or other visual effects shot. And time (especially in movies) is money.

On the upside, the quality curve between high budget and lower budget CGI effects is less extreme, making more and better effects possible for lower budget productions.

Sometimes those lower budget CGI shots are not as meticulously tweaked into looking real as the larger budget effects. And also, the best people in the industry generally are on the big budget productions with less experienced ones on the lower budget.

Take a movie like The Journey To The Center Of The Earth remake. It was not a high budget movie. Still it had a lot of effects and they were able to show a lot more things that would've been impossible for even a high budget movie in the pre CGI days. The effects look nice, even if they often look like CGI and the movie was a lot of (silly) fun.

[Seeker]

An argument for those agaist CGI. Take a look at Debbie Gibsons latest...

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. I heard about it on the radio and thought they were joking but sadly its true.

[ctc]

>Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.

I'm quite okay with the CGI part.... it's the "Debbie Gibson" thing that bothers me....

Don C.