http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1919501 An excellent look back on the advancement of professional video editing used in the production of films. Digg This
Aye, effects sure have gone a long way... Also that kinda makes us young peeps appreciate the effects in the original Star Wars. Sure they look like crap on modern standards, but still seem like a crazy improvement over the stuff made until then.
I think the original Star Wars, and other films around that era before CGI, look better than the over-CGI'd trash we get now. A real-life model of something is much better than obviously fake scenes. Remember Jurassic Park? That scene with the T-Rex and the cars... Utterly brilliant because it was a giant rubber model, it was perfect! Try and imagine that now with even present-day CGI and I can't see it being any better. Having said that some of the newest films about are pretty fantastic for CGI - Benjamin Button springs to mind, that was absolutely fantastic.
Not the whole scene, I mean the bit where it's staring into the cars etc. I know half of it is CGI, but that's only from afar.
Blade Runner. They either used composites with matt backdrops or model shots and the film still looks better than most new releases today. I think CGI has its place, but it goes too far when everything on screen has been generated inside a computer.
I agree with Krikkit, in most cases, real life models beat CGI, well, apart from when it's a CGI film like Wall-e. People are just getting lazy with film making, it's far cheaper and easier to make a good looking piece of CGI than it is to make good looking model work.
What are you talking about? Everyone knows that the latest star wars movies, and by extension the remastered original trilogy, are as George Lucas originally intended the universe to look, and as such we should all be laughing at the original films and their primitive attempts at FX!
Rofl. The ultimate versions are the late-90's remasters tbh. All the lasers are done properly, but none of that extra ********.
