How I feel about CGI "cartoons"

#2

Am I dead yet?

Valigarmander · #3

I feel like Pixar has got a good, cartoony design in most of their films. Dreamworks is bad about this, though. I remember thinking all the human characters in Monsters vs. Aliens looking like they had melanoma.

DarkZero · #4

A full CG-animated movie usually tends to look better than a CGI/live-action hybrid because you have to make the CG characters really detailed to blend in with the rest of the environment and it often comes off as bizarre-looking.

Sim Kid · #5

I think it really depends - the issue I have with a lot of CG-I cartoons is how many of them wouldn't look too out of place in another movie. It's like... are all you guys using the same software that Pixar probably loaned Disney?

#6

shmorky

Kargath · #7

Renderman?

Deepfake · #8

[QUOTE="DarkZero, post: 1539752, member: 34654"]A full CG-animated movie usually tends to look better than a CGI/live-action hybrid because you have to make the CG characters really detailed to blend in with the rest of the environment and it often comes off as bizarre-looking.[/QUOTE]
It's just some of the disturbing decisions companies like Dreamworks tend to employ. Why does everything have human eyes? Why are they all mottled and realistically textured but then have completely inappropriate skeletal structures and loaner-parts from another species? Like the teeth, oh god the human teeth. No, take your awful hellbeast away.

Valigarmander · #9

Apollo the Just · #10

I'm fine with CG movies for which the characters were originally designed. What bothers me is when a 2-D design gets bastardized into a CG monstrosity

ScottyMcGee · #11

(Michael Bay whispers to himself: "It's beautiful. . .")

Deepfake · #12

^

THIS IS MY SWAMP

Scarecrow · #13

the turtles really did get mutated.

#14

...kind of think CGI is better used in service of talking animal movies. Or Disney/Pixar's super-deformed huge-eyeball people (jeepers lorenzo---------contact lenses must be the size of a bread-plate in modern disney-universe). Realistic-proportion people in CG look scary and gross. Remember 'The Polar Express'? Ewww. Yuck. Yucky.

There are some things CGI just isn't real good for, and realistic humans is one of them.

ScottyMcGee · #15

^I think that's because they fall into the uncanny valley. The more realistic they seem, the more you find yourself cringing.

There was a girl in my college who lived across from me and loved The Polar Express. I was interested in her and she invited me to see it at her dorm. I had never seen the movie, mind you, and was next to completely ignorant of it except for the children's book.

I literally wanted to stab my eyes with forks. Not only was the CGI uncomfortable, but the movie itself was so bland. And this girl literally whispered some lines in the movie like it were some majestic feature that granted wisdom.

#16

Well, you know. Not everybody's going to like the same things. (Once had a long-term girlfriend who couldn't stand 'Ghostbusters'. Kind of startled hell out of me. I mean, that's like a universally appealing movie, isn't it.)

That Uncanny Valley, though. I mean, people have been using it as a token of horror for ages, and here come all these doofuses trying to make heartwarming movies right on top of it. Damnedest thing I've ever heard of. Some people are down to clown---------personally, I'm a lot more grossed out by Fiona than any other character in 'Shrek'. Get the hell away, creature-----------I will do a juvi-driver on you.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #17

Dunno, thinking back, Final Fantasy Spirits Within looked great back in the day. Still looks okay (the main female and the doctor, mainly, not the rest). Tifa looks pretty good in Advent Children.

#18

How is 'Advent Children'? I'm not big on FF, or JRPGs in general, but I got pretty far into FF7 before gettin bored. Is it worth checking out?

Deepfake · #19

[QUOTE="Scarecrow, post: 1540187, member: 37446"]the turtles really did get mutated.[/QUOTE]

[DOUBLEPOST=1435090643,1435090367][/DOUBLEPOST][QUOTE="I REALLY HATE POKEMON!, post: 1540214, member: 18119"]Dunno, thinking back, Final Fantasy Spirits Within looked great back in the day. Still looks okay (the main female and the doctor, mainly, not the rest). Tifa looks pretty good in Advent Children.[/QUOTE]
Spirits Within was okay looking until they spoke. The mouth-syncing was horrible.

YouTube · #20

Michael Bay's Turtles look like the SMB movie's Goombas.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"