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That The Fifth Element (1997) scene linked in the article actually holds up well.
by cyberlurker 4y ago
That The Fifth Element (1997) scene linked in the article actually holds up well.
- chris_va 4y agoAmusingly I think most of that is not actually CGI (as we now define it). They had a giant warehouse with a toy NYC that they flew a camera through with little models... pretty nuts given how movies are made now. The making of Fifth Element is a pretty great watch.
- dekhn 4y agoTake a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UENRVfdnGxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UENRVfdnGxs 3:48-4:02. 5 seconds of screen time tell more story than many science fiction movies do in 2 hours. Detail in https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/53p7gw/original_4k_matte_painting_of_new_york_city_from/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/53p7gw/orig...
- gwern 4y agoI don't buy the argument we'll just automatically learn to see the CGI as fake. This is a selection effect: you see as fake only the CGI you see as fake; if it just looks real and fools you, how will you ever know you were fooled? Early CGI was bad, but it kept getting better every year. When I watch documentaries or CGI breakdowns, I'm routinely shocked at how things I would never in a million years have predicted were fake were fake. When someone shows a clip of a glowing floating space alien octopus, you can know it's fake because you know there are no space alien octopuses in real life; but when it's some box in a corner with some stuff on it which the director added in prod because he realized he needed a more homey and cluttered feeling for that scene...