#Visual effects

[fans4wga]

[kevinbparry]

One of my favorites from last year. Mixing practical lighting effects and invisible edits.

[scipunk]

Stargate (1994)

[destielmemenews]

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Jude Law - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

[lizardsfromspace]

Some people at ILM/Lucasfilm made a short film using AI called "Star Wars: Field Guide" and obviously, it looks like garbage, but it's garbage in a specific way

You know that thing cheaper sci-fi properties, like TV shows or the b-movies that inspired Star Wars, do where their space animals are just dogs with antenna or normal animals with color filters over them? You know how Star Wars is NOT that, and has an array of unique creatures visualized with practical effects, stop motion, and CGI? Let's establish a baseline

That was nice.

Anyway here's what the advanced power of AI was able to come up with, in the space of two weeks

Wow! I'm really being transported to a magical land of strange and alien creatures here! Remember that scene in Attack of the Clones where they have to fight those creatures, and it's three totally different creatures we haven't seen before? Well, what if instead of that, it was a lion....THAT WAS BLUE???

At last: through the power of AI, Star Wars can match the visual effects power of a middling Sci-Fi Channel space opera show, or perhaps a "make a hybrid of two animals" early 2000s Photoshop contest.

It isn't just that it looks bad. It genuinely looks more crude than anything in Star Wars. Even when Star Wars was bad it was good on the "making creatures" front, and this looks utterly generic and, again, cheap. Star Wars usually goes too hard, making up aliens and creatures that show up for one second in the distant background. Did you know there's a giant mantis puppet somewhere in the cantina scene that you can barely see on screen? There was someone under the skirt (the giant mantis is wearing a skirt) controlling it for a whole day and it's just in the background. This is a franchise that had to resort to using Halloween costumes in A New Hope when they ran out of aliens, and this still looks cheaper and more put-together than that. Judging you

[contac]

[arkhamsalvation]

the whole visual effects team in sinners deserves a bonus raise internally for the glowing eyes on the vampires. i was mesmerised. i felt feral. like a prey

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

ALIEN (1979)

[fxville]

destiny 2 | environments

[kevinbparry]

From the vault! Ping pong ball trick I made in 2018

[scipunk]

Stargate (1994)

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Return of the Jedi (1983)