What the frick happened to the CGI industry?

No, seriously. What the frick happened? This was 16 years ago. I can only think of two movies released in the last 16 years with CGI even coming close to this, and it was the last two Planet of the Apes movies. Even the new Avatar looks like a Crysis tech demo.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Apparently the issue is that everyone is overworked, tired and on the verge of death. You can't put out your best work like this.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Apparently the issue is that everyone is overworked, tired and on the verge of death.
      so they're lazy, why didn't you just say so

      • 9 months ago
        SupportTheStrike

        you try to do your best work on barely any pay, working insane hours and on a deadline that is impossible. that's not "lazy" that's being asked to be inhuman.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      all as a result of cost cutting, with reduced staff and trimmed schedules until you're running a permanent ghost crew that's just barely able to put out a billable product.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This has been an issue in the gaming industry as well. Yet, when you crunch the frick out of people they do put out amazing work if they're well managed. Rockstar has an amazing output when it comes to the quality of their games. Same as Naughty Dog. Sure, you might disagree that the story is dogshit but the games do look amazing.

      Wasn’t Davy Jones created at ILM?

      All CGI today is outsourced to Korea and India. And the morons watching capeshit don’t seem to care anyway.

      I think this is most likely the case, there is a serious case of Hollywood accounting going on. These movies with overblown budgets that have shit CGI. Where is the money going? Are they pocketing these millions of dollars that could be used to pay actually good artists and instead just get Indian and Koreans to do it dirt cheap? That seems to be my bet.

      >ven the new Avatar looks like a Crysis tech demo.
      Is this what butthurt haters actually believe?

      Cry more.

      It was impressive as all frick in 2009, don't get me wrong, but I can't really see much improvement. Which I guess is as much as you can ask these days, that instead of a downgrade it would stay constant.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Rockstar has an amazing output when it comes to the quality of their games.
        Such a moronic post deserves a permanent ban

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Such a moronic post deserves a permanent ban
          ok phoneposter gay
          RDR2 literally is the highest quality game in terms of attention to detail and graphics in recent history
          >inb4 gta remastered was shit
          not developed by rockstar

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They hate RDR2 because the MC isn't sufficiently racist.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Also because the game sucks, the story sucks, etc. Oh wow look at the muscles on the horse move!!! Meanwhile the entire game is
              >Follow this NPC dickhead on a horse for 10 minutes whilst they talk
              >Get into an incredibly easy shootout for 5 minutes
              >Follow dickhead on horse back to safety
              >Over and over and over and over again

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >RDR2 literally is the highest quality game in terms of attention to detail and graphics in recent history

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              i dont care if its made by a single black troony that was in a wheelchair
              the game was still high quality

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              That's just a picture of interns, secretaries and the HR department being marched out for a PR photo doesn't mean they had significant impact on the quality of the game.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I can't believe I can only see one troony

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                you aren't looking closely enough

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >games do look amazing.
        The games look above average but their gameplay has stagnated and has declined in quite a few areas. They aren't even really games anymore but interactive stories at this point.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well there is this:
      Also
      >1 studio with 1 or 2 support studios having more time to handcraft effect shots
      vs
      >10 studios with 30 support studios having to coordinate an equal baseline of quality between all studios and create more or less a full CGI movie with greenscreened actors in a faster timeframe than before.
      Gee, I wonder what happened?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Making money is unironically more important than appealing to your autistic senses. Business is an art.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Making money is unironically more important than appealing to your autistic senses
        What a moronic thing to say. Senses are... autistic? Money is more important than making something good? Why not both? Pirates made a ton of money. Do you even know what you're saying?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Smdh anti-vaxxers letting covid run riot caused this

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >do you fear... death-a ?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love Davy

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn’t Davy Jones created at ILM?

    All CGI today is outsourced to Korea and India. And the morons watching capeshit don’t seem to care anyway.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/Tz4JxHF.jpg

      No, seriously. What the frick happened? This was 16 years ago. I can only think of two movies released in the last 16 years with CGI even coming close to this, and it was the last two Planet of the Apes movies. Even the new Avatar looks like a Crysis tech demo.

      Rango Sequel never

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >ven the new Avatar looks like a Crysis tech demo.
    Is this what butthurt haters actually believe?

    Cry more.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Davy Jones arrived at a time when technology was reaching new heights, but CGI was still being used responsibly, as a tool rather than as a crutch. Bill Nighy was in a mo-cap suit, surrounded by real actors on real sets. Modern blockbusters use CGI on top of CGI on top of CGI etc.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I remember seeing an interview of Bill saying how he wasn't really enthusiastic about the process, and how he just did it by constantly thinking about the money. Yet, he still delivered a more iconic performance than so call method actors.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He wasn't happy wearing a pajama while everyone else had proper pirate clothing

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >and it was the last two Planet of the Apes movies
    Based.
    Apeshit > Capeshit

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody really cared about how good the CGI was back then, now people are praising shit like this as if it's some kind of visual masterpiece

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What game is that?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It won the fricking visual effects oscar, that should tell you how low we've fallen.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Looks like that mod map tatooine in empire at war.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Thanos is better than this. Thanos has better cgi than this
    Why don't you guys talk about it? why don't you guys talk about how good the cgi for thanos was? Because it's the mcu and disney and israelite shit?
    Do you guys just hate things like women so much that you can't think critically about anything? you just hate and love stuff, like some 13 year old girl?
    Thanos had better cgi than anything we have seen prior. the scene where he is screaming after they almost capture him, best cgi we have ever gotten.
    Why do you guys circle jerk over the same shit everyday but don't acknowledge other things? why are you guys so biased? Dead mans chest did not have the best cgi ever. It was very good but it isn't the best. There are other movies that have better cgi
    Why is Cinemaphile like this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Thanos looks stupid and fake like a Dr Who Sontaran. He looks like 2009 kids movie. Comic books are for homosexuals

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No he didn't. the cgi was the best we have seen. Why do you just lie like that? Why do you lie?
        you're so fricking stupid and can't actually form a good argument. Thanos had cgi that was miles better than what you see in pirate movies. Why are you guys like this? Just constant bullshit and circle jerking.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Nice tantrum, moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nice reply, sack of shit lol

            People just wants to fit in, even when anonymous. MCU is derided (for good reason) so the followers thinks everything within is bad because they think that will make them fit in.

            >Most of Cinemaphile is so fricking stupid they literally cannot think beyond trying to be apart of some group
            Why be so shallow? why are people so afraid of thinking and saying things?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Am I being shallow? 90% of posts on Cinemaphile is regurgitated garbage saying the same stupid opinion over and over again.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I didn't call you shallow, I said why be so shallow regarding Cinemaphile being so dumb they can't think beyond trying to be a part of a group. It's like fricking highschool, it's so pathetic.
                Cinemaphile being the same group of morons that just repeat themselves over and over again is the point I'm making. They're all fricking moronic for some reason and none of them listen.
                You have mind blowing cgi in shit they don't like, like the mcu, and they just never acknowledge it. They're such fricking women, it's so annoying

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          People just wants to fit in, even when anonymous. MCU is derided (for good reason) so the followers thinks everything within is bad because they think that will make them fit in.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think Thanos looked good outside of a few scenes in Endgame but that guy's missing the point because the thread is about movie CGI in blockbusters on average. Average quality has deteriorated

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Average quality hasn't deteriorated at all. There are many more movies with cgi now so you see bad cgi more often but on average now compared to before, it's way better. You guys just can't accept this because you're opinions are so based on not liking things. That's why everyone calls Cinemaphile the dumb contrarian board. You guys are like literally moronic or something

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      davy jones looks far more complex than thanos

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >only think of two movies released in the last 16 years with CGI even coming close to this

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they don’t do CGI in house anymore and it’s all outsourced to chinks and poos realized they can halfass the cgi and people will still see it anyway

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good morning sir this is Thronahoptamurdinghophor CGI how may I direct your order? 1 Super Heroing yes sir

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People work and try harder when working on ground breaking technology, solving fresh problems. It's a large part of why the early Pixar films are so damn good too, when you have to invent completely new tech to get the film to screen everyone has to step up their game.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    cgi crybabies are the worst
    practical effects are just as obvious and fake as CG but you wankers gotta holla every time there's a cg effect like you just found waldo and want a gold star

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    outsourcing

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Scheduling, basically. They need to be shitting out CGIfests one after another now, so it looks shittier both as a cust-cutting measure and as a way to save time.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Netflix production is much faster and good vfx is about time and money.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Disney literally worked out the minimum viable product strategy over 2 dozen shitty MCU movies and finally came to the perfect ratio between shitty CGI that can be pumped out in 3 months and normies not caring.

    Normies don't see the difference, literally.
    Normies believe in the vaxx, normies believe in the ghost of kiev, if an ad says the latest MCU movie is amazing they will believe it because they're conditioned to believe anything authorities tell them.

    Disney knows this, and puts the least possible effort to maximize profits.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    CGI and VFX were never meant to be the stars of the show... they are visual story telling tools which function is to help tell the story just like composition, lighting, color, editing and so on. If you start paying attention to those elements then it means the story and character have failed to draw you in which is honestly a far bigger problem.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    2007 strike

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's the point in investing time and money into making good CGI when Pajeets and other thirdies gobble it up regardless?

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Most of its during the day and in bright areas as well.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because you keep calling everything PS2 graphics and this is the only example from this century that's safe to appreciate.

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