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Really? You could tell the planes in Top Gun: Maverick were all CGI over reference footage? You could tell the Barbie movie car sequences were shot in front of

by elil17 2y ago

Really? You could tell the planes in Top Gun: Maverick were all CGI over reference footage? You could tell the Barbie movie car sequences were shot in front of a green screen (as opposed to a matte painting, which is how it appears)? You could tell that almost all the racing shots in Gran Turismo were CGI? This wasn't an example given in the video series but what about a movie like Brokeback Mountain? Can you tell which of the sheep or which of the mountaintops are CGI? If you can, that's absolutely shocking to me. Take a look at this shot: https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/z8wbv4/whats_the_consensus_on_this_shot_from_the_avatar/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/z8wbv4/whats_the_conse... Can you tell which parts are CGI and which are practical? Here's the answer: https://imgur.com/a/Q7UUn2G https://imgur.com/a/Q7UUn2G

snakeyjake 2y ago
>Really? You could tell the planes in Top Gun: Maverick were all CGI over reference footage? Yes. The Darkstar doesn't exist and it is impossible to photograph a flying F-14 without the permission of the Islamic Republic of Iran-- which is unlikely to give it. I 100%, irrefutably, unquestionably, knew that every single frame of every single second of those scenes were 100% cgi. I also knew that most of the F/A-18 scenes were CGI because Tom Cruise is not an F/A-18 pilot so he must have sat in the rear seat of a two-seater version and they edited out the front pilot and changed the rear seats to look like the front seat. You didn't know that? Curious. >You could tell that almost all the racing shots in Gran Turismo were CGI? Yes, because they looked like shit. I have not seen Barbie. From what I've seen it looks like it was shot in that fancy new rear projection setup various projects are using. Also blue aliens don't exist.
- elil17 2y ago
  It sounds like you’re saying you knew the Top Gun Maverick shots were CGI because you know a lot about planes, not because the footage looks wrong. Barbie was chroma keyed - they discuss it in the aforementioned YouTube videos. And, yes,I know blue aliens don’t exist. But parts of that movie are composited mixtures of CGI and humans in body paint. The point is that you can’t distinguish the digital from the physical. And, really, what about Brokeback Mountain?

by elil17 2y ago

snakeyjake 2y ago

>Really? You could tell the planes in Top Gun: Maverick were all CGI over reference footage? Yes. The Darkstar doesn't exist and it is impossible to photograph a flying F-14 without the permission of the Islamic Republic of Iran-- which is unlikely to give it. I 100%, irrefutably, unquestionably, knew that every single frame of every single second of those scenes were 100% cgi. I also knew that most of the F/A-18 scenes were CGI because Tom Cruise is not an F/A-18 pilot so he must have sat in the rear seat of a two-seater version and they edited out the front pilot and changed the rear seats to look like the front seat. You didn't know that? Curious. >You could tell that almost all the racing shots in Gran Turismo were CGI? Yes, because they looked like shit. I have not seen Barbie. From what I've seen it looks like it was shot in that fancy new rear projection setup various projects are using. Also blue aliens don't exist.

elil17 2y ago
It sounds like you’re saying you knew the Top Gun Maverick shots were CGI because you know a lot about planes, not because the footage looks wrong. Barbie was chroma keyed - they discuss it in the aforementioned YouTube videos. And, yes,I know blue aliens don’t exist. But parts of that movie are composited mixtures of CGI and humans in body paint. The point is that you can’t distinguish the digital from the physical. And, really, what about Brokeback Mountain?