CGI vs Practical Effects
Commenters debate whether a showcased video, film scene, or demo uses real footage and practical effects or relies on CGI, green screens, compositing, and other digital techniques, often pointing out inconsistencies suggesting artificiality.
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Seems to be stock footage, is it surprising makeup would be involved?
It's true that 1990s pirated videos where someone snuck a handheld camera into the cinema were often very low quality.But did you know large portions of The Mandalorian were produced with the actors acting in front of an enormous, high-resolution LED screen [1] instead of building a set, or using greenscreen?It turns out pointing a camera at a screen can actually be pretty realistic, if you know what you're doing.And I suspect the pr agencies interested in flooding the interne
How does one include real footage when the product does not exist yet?
Makes me wonder how the original effect was accomplished in the film.
Might have as well been filmed in front of a projection of that plane landing - it looks that way in the beginning anyway.
The shots towards the end have nothing around the items being focused on, such as remnants of the larger items. Doesn't need to be CGI, just multiple takes stitched together.
They could have filmed some of the freezer stuff live and then overlayed it on the other stuff
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but it looks to me like the actors are green-screened into a [cg] scene. I don't think the scene is real actors in a real setting, then modified to replace actors with characters. Thus, there's no problem with the in-painting, the whole actor is on a different layer?I'm seeing it in my phone. Like I said, maybe I misunderstood, but the scenes didn't seem like real places (eg shot cropped so foot-shadows aren't included, as this is hard
On one hand, it's indeed odd to hear that shit's on fire whilst the screen shows an all happy scenario; On the other hand, it's the cheaper way of doing things - instead of having to live-render the spacecraft and all telemetry that you need to get from a probably isolated system, just play a video. Trajectory and events are predetermined, so unless something goes wrong, the video is fully sufficient.I'm reminded a bit of the moment when I learned that the action movie her
I bet they were about to release a behind the scenes video to brag how they did everything practically with no CGI