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Really? The little xenomorph skittering off after it burst out from the chest literally made me laugh out loud with how silly it looked, it was so incredibly st
by Zircom 5y ago
Really? The little xenomorph skittering off after it burst out from the chest literally made me laugh out loud with how silly it looked, it was so incredibly stiff and fake.
- nicce 5y agoThere are of course some minor problems, but the overall environment creates so ”real” feeling. It is not perfect, but somehow it makes one to believe this could be real. I don’t really know how to describe that. It is missing from the modern CGI movies.
- open-source-ux 5y agoThat example of practical effects looked quite stiff and fake like you said. But practical effects also continued to improve over the years even though CGI came to dominate the film industry. Alien was released in 1979, but a few years later saw the release of An American Werewolf in London (1981) which featured a memorable werewolf transformation (all practictal effects). Then in 1982 saw the release of The Thing which took practical effects a notch higher. Also, today filmmakers sometimes use a hybrid approach: combining practical and digital effects. I do wonder how much further practical effects would have developed if CGI haven't overtook the film industry.