DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Officially Cool: Freakishly Realistic Animation

  • Mister Hand · 1 year ago
    It's very impressive, but there's something WESTWORLD-ey about it. It sort of gives me the same feeling I used to get when I would go to Chuck E. Cheese Pizza and imagine the animatronic animals were going to come to life and slaughter all of the kids.

    Disturbed childhood. I had it. And one thing that didn't help at all was the demon animatronic animals at Chuck E. Cheese.
  • Conrad Rothbaum · 1 year ago
    that was pretty freaky, but i still just don't see the point.
  • Vin · 1 year ago
    In Soviet Russia, computer animate you!
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    Yes! We're bringing back Yakov Smirnov humor? I'm on board.

    Er, I mean, in Soviet Russia, board is on me!
  • Keith · 1 year ago
    There is nothing artistic about it.
  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    That video was a good demonstration. Guests being interviewed on T.V, especially the news, look robotic. I like how the artists got around the weird eye problem computer animation has. People on T.V are always staring in one direction and smiling because they're reading cue cards or they prepared their answers beforehand.

    I also got a "Blade Runner" vibe when watching it. If it was a HD video clip, I think it would be harder to tell she was a replicant.
  • Kevin Gustafson · 1 year ago
    I think it could make those action movies with fake CGI look better. Then we could have two kinds of action movies. The other being those using practical effects.
  • Wilhelm Scream · 1 year ago
    Methinks Vin has stumbled here from the AV Club boards.
  • Kevin Carr · 1 year ago
    looks good, but still looks simulated a bit (and in a very controlled environment with lighting). I'd be curious to see full movement.

    Still in the uncanny valley, but seems to be climbing out of it at least.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    I had a whole big response typed out, but instead, just tune into boiling point this coming Monday for my thoughts.
  • Adam · 1 year ago
    This is great. CGI shouldn't have the potential influence that everyone is claiming it to have
    on the film industry. We need real people to do real stunts and real acting. Fuck any
    pompous pixel loving mother fucker that says otherwise.
  • SharifS · 9 months ago
    I don't think that animating humans defeats the whole purpose of animation if you can make it very realistic, to the point that you think it's certainly real and then you can have the animated actor do things that a regular actor normally can't like fly or make a person look younger or older and it would work with the story or message that is being presented in the animated film, then I think it would be a good thing if it was to allow a truly good story to be realized without the distracting the viewer by seeming at all unrealistic.