#cgi visualization

[weevmo]

Literally have 30 seconds left to board on @kmodoposts Jax song: Playground and we are cooking for you guys; stylized visuals, spots of animation, so much love for this silly rabbit dude: we'll even have a premiere! get excited!

It should be out within a couple months but we'll get a more specific date out asap -

[redshoes-blues]

It feels illegal to have Doctor Who be this high budget. I’m not complaining, it’s just so strange it’ll take some getting used to lol

[kaijugifs]

[2-dsimp]

HELLO?? YOU CAN'T JUST DROP A REDESIGN AND NOT EXPECT US TO GO FERAL

Well I shall drop another redesign for one of the CGI’s for monster distribution system. Wonder who this could be? 👀

(yes I’m still working on that yan visual novel game lol. I actually tried to upload it weeks ago. only for the game to auto-delete itself thankfully I had backups but it be scary trying to upload the game to it.chio when tutorials be 5 years old😭)

[trashpandaqc]

Luminous Visions, 1998, a home video release combining Yoichiro Kawaguchi's procedural art and licensed tracks from Tangerine Dream's 90s rave phase. some pretty amazing compositions and use of color in this.

[ultra-nohai]

trance

[thepunkmuppet]

every day I lament jack kline being in only the last few seasons of supernatural, because as well-written as he and his whole arc genuinely is, the rest of that portion of the show is uuuuh ASS, not to mention visually boring.

every day I imagine tiny babyface jack filmed with the grainy aesthetic, the gorgeous high-contrast lighting and dark greyish filter… shots of him in the dark with his eyes glowing like a little cryptid, him in the car at night, him appearing out of nowhere in sam and dean’s hotel rooms. him using his powers with late 2000s limited CGI, and more of the vibe of early seasons angels where their powers aren’t big and flashy and glowy but they feel more eldritch and scary…. static and exploding glass and uncanny not-quite-humannness…. OH it’s just so good

also please consider that alexander calvert was twenty years old in 2010 (season 5, aka when lucifer was first in the show) and FIFTEEN during season 1. closest picture I could find to what a 2000s seasons jack would look like is THIS

I love my son bro :(

ALSO HE FUCKING LOOKS LIKE SAM I’M GONNA KILL MYSELF WHY DIDN’T THEY GIVE HIM THIS HAIRCUT THE SAMJACK PARALLELS WOULD’VE HIT EVEN HARDER

anyways I would change absolutely nothing about jack or the way his story ended, but MAN the early seasons aesthetic….. OOOOUGHGHHH HE DESERVES IT HE’S TOO GOOD FOR THE LATER SEASONS BRO I NEED 2000’S HORROR CRYPTID JACK

[kingoftieland]

X-Men: The Last Stand had TERRIBLE DE-AGING! 👴🏻

[aroaceleovaldez]

i am having A Time looking through some old blogs and stuff because I found some Ye Olde Gifsets of the Sea of Monsters movie and. okay. I know it's not fair to compare a movie and a TV show. Howeverrrrr, the PJO TV show allegedly had a HUUUGE budget. Cause it's Disney. (Actually, I did the math - low estimate budget for all of s1 was $96 million USD - allegedly $12-15mil per episode, compared to SoM's $90mil total budget) So why does the Sea of Monsters movie from ten years ago over half the time look better than the show? Like. A lot better.

Like I've complained about the CGI in the show before. Quite a bit. They can't consistently scale Chiron's horse half so he's changing size/proportions in every scene, they can't properly scale the stationary trident floating above Percy's head (you can TELL the asset is elongated improperly like someone stretched it and didn't fix it), they're actively avoiding animating Percy's hydrokinesis as much as possible, and the majority of monster or general CGI scenes are as hands-off as possible.

And as an animator I get it, if you don't have to animate something don't animate it. But. if your series is ENTIRELY CENTERED AROUND A CHARACTER WHO'S BIG MAIN THING IS CONTROLLING WATER. but you REFUSE TO SHOW HIM CONTROLLING WATER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Then maybe you SHOULDN'T HAVE CHOSEN THAT SERIES. And I get most scenes with monster fights are difficult to CGI interaction with. CGI interaction is not easy to make look good. But also. You cannot get through the entire series without the characters physically interacting with monsters that are going to have to be CGI'd. And there are ways to do it where the avoidance of interacting with the CGI things is less noticeable, but the show very much does not do that. They did it for the minotaur fight! Everything is really dark with strategic lighting so stuff gets obscured. That one looked fine! But in like every other CGI fight Percy just. Does not touch. It very clear the show is doing very cheap CGI wherever possible and then having the nicer monsters and things that carefully do not touch moving things as much as possible. Walker sits completely stationary when Percy's turning to gold cause they had to CGI over him and it looks bad anyways. PJO TV has the budget for it to not be bad. Disney has the means. But they're not doing that. Even fully stationary CGI scenery like Olympus is clearly super lazy and is skipped over as quickly as possible and is just sad.

Anyways I'm gonna go reblog some old Sea of Monsters gifsets.

[sonknuxadow]

it just hit me that the movie is coming out next month imgonna throw upppppppp

[filmbrodumb]

The fuck is this guy talking about!?!? They didn't fucking drive into a real sandstorm. Does this guy even know what CGI means!?

[antennatoheaven]

my thoughts on The Murderbot Show:

idk man

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[wyrmways]

I love prehistoric planet so so dearly but i do wish that they made the animals a little less gray.

Especially in cases of animals that are theorized to have sexual display traits like frills or crests?? They put some color on them but compared to real life animals (especially reptiles & birds!) they are just sooo dull.

Nanuqsaurus was especially disappointing for me. Maybe it's just because it's normally depicted as some kind of white color, but i feel having the opportunity for such a unique color on this dinosaur and making it mostly the same grayish brown as so many other dinosaurs in the show was a missed opportunity.

Part of this is definitely the filter and lighting they put over certain scenes to make them look more 'natural' i suppose. I think the male hatzegopteryx's crest is actually very beautiful, but unfortunately due to the lighting of the show it often appears so much more drab and dull than it should be, even in broad daylight .

(color in show vs art by ttorroo on instagram)

This is a major reason the corythoraptor design stood out to me, because they were just so bright and beautiful in comparison to everything else in the show! Every time they were on screen i thought it was amazing to get to see these dinosaurs in such vibrant color! This shows that they /can/ depict dinosaurs in this way at least.

And i feel as though the only reason they /were/ blue is because they were based off of the modern cassowaries (one of which i got to see in person recently, they are a GORGEOUS blue. So much brighter than you would expect, heres a picture)

I just feel like, even though i love prehistoric planet, its quest to be overly 'realistic' holds it back in this area at least. The only animals they were willing to make super vibrant were the ones they based on a living similar bird, instead of considering that if the bright colors of a cassowary are possible, there's nothing that says that other bright colors could be possible on other types of dinosaurs.

Especially considering the colors of other birds! If they wanted to base the dino coloring on real life animals, they could have been inspired by other kinds of birds. Just because cassowaries are more 'dinosaur-like' doesnt discount the fact that birds are an incredibly diversely colored and patterned group of animals. There is plenty of potential for other colors in dinosaurs when looking at modern ones.

In fact, i would argue that the fossil evidence we have shows that dinosaurs could have been more brightly colored and distinctly patterned than the ones in the show, at least. While there haven't been bright yellow or blue dinos found, there has been evidence of brighter reds and browns, some greens and purples, iridescent like feathers, and more distinct patterns like stripes on several dinos.

It kind of baffles me how they were able to make leaps like the dreadnoughtus air sacs, but they weren't willing to make the dinosaurs a little brighter? I mean, so much paleo art nowadays depicts dinos in vibrant colors, i dont think it would be too much of a stretch.

Tldr, i love prehistoric planet and i think it has done a lot for the perception and depiction of dinosaurs as real life animals, i just wish that it didnt associate looking 'realistic' with 'looking gray' as much as it does, especially considering the amount of potential traits for sexual display dinosaurs had, and the colors of living birds and fossil evidence of dinosaur colors.

[allihaveleftismywords]

I wish we still had DVD special features.

Like as a kid, when I had a DVD, I would watch the crap out of the "making of's" or like interviews with the costume designers/production designers/animators - whatever.

I loved learning about the movie making process, because as a kid from a middle class family, smack bang in Australia, Hollywood felt like the furthest place on earth to me. I loved seeing all the artistry about how they built the world, how the costumes and makeup came together to make the characters feel lived in, how the actors developed their process - it was fascinating to me.

Now everything is on streaming and the production process is so obfuscated and intangible and I hate it.

I want to know how the sausage was made, and I still crave a hot dog.

[ultra-nohai]

easter '24