Whether you like it or not, visual effects are provided in virtually every new movie you watch.
Even the smallest movies will employ CGI to make small visual tweaks you wouldn’t possibly even think of, all the way up to the biggest mega-budgets that must make you drool over the creativity of their sumptuous, effects-driven action sequences.
But of course, not all CGI is created equal, and as glorious as it can be in the right hands, it ends up being more of an annoying distraction than anything else.
This may, for one of many reasons, rushed production deadlines, unreasonable expectations, and rate cuts from studios cited as the most common, enough for VFX artists to slowly start unionizing. Good for them.
Still, for the majority of the audience who don’t care about the publicity aspect of the film industry, bad CGI is bad CGI at the end of the day, and in anticipation of those upcoming films, each one of them turns out to be prepared for unleash some in fact, strident effects on the public.
Things may be consistent leading up to launch, but let’s be honest, how often does this actually happen?Prepare. . .
Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn’s new spy movie Argylle sounds like a lot of fun, if you can forgive the absolute horror that is this virtual feline.
Meta-espionage sees novelist Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) embroiled in a full-blown plot with her cat Alfie.
Although a genuine cat is used for some shots, most of their appearances in the film’s trailer are digital, and boy, do they look smart at all.
There’s an overwhelming cartoonish character to the cat’s virtual likeness that’s reflected in a dozen videos of horribly talking animals, culminating in this climactic trailer of the kitten thrown into the air into the camera.
Now, no one will push for a genuine cat to be disposed of in this way, even videos posted over a decade ago have made photogenuine CGI animals more convincing than this one.
The fact that the cat is in the real-life puppy of Vaughn’s wife, Claudia Schiffer, makes its lack of verisimilitude even stranger.
For a movie that obviously costs a pretty penny, it’s that this visual effects detail alone seems so clunky.
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