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Displaying all articles tagged:
Cgi
screen time
July 20, 2022
TVs Are Too Good Now
Why does
Home Alone
look better than the latest Marvel fare on the most advanced displays?
By
Lane Brown
fmawn
July 1, 2022
Sigourney Weaver Will Be De-aged and Na’vi’d for
Avatar 2
What in the
Polar Express …
By
Rebecca Alter
nah
July 18, 2021
Grimes to Co-Host a Singing Competition for Her Fellow Digital Avatars
It looks like they stuffed a bunch of contestants in mo-cap suits and gave them access to a Sims customization screen.
By
Rebecca Alter
cgi
Nov. 15, 2020
Black Panther 2
Will Not Digitally Replicate Chadwick Boseman
To put your mind at ease.
By
Halle Kiefer
music videos
Oct. 2, 2020
Imagine Being the Freaky Cheshire Cat in Meg Thee Stallion’s ‘Don’t Stop’ Video
👁👄👁
By
Zoe Haylock
sure why not
Mar. 5, 2020
CGI Influencer ‘Consciously Uncoupling’ From Human Boyfriend
Lil Miquela and her alive boy, Nick, are no more.
By
Claire Lampen
purrrrrr
Dec. 16, 2019
Jason Derulo Has One
Cats
Gripe: ‘They CGI-ed the Dick Out’
Seems reasonable.
By
Devon Ivie
posthumanism
Nov. 6, 2019
Famously Dead Actor James Dean to Star in Upcoming War Drama
Who needs real actors when you can revive dead ones!
By
Rebecca Alter
hardest things
Sept. 10, 2019
The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off
42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.
By
Abraham Riesman
game of thrones
May 16, 2019
Why
Game of Thrones
Had to Shoo Away Its Direwolves
Even on a show that set the gold standard for TV visual effects, the Stark wolves represented a unique — and ultimately unsustainable — challenge.
By
Calum Marsh
Dec. 12, 2018
6 Movies With Hidden CGI
Special effects can be subtle, too!
By
Granger Willson
the industry
Dec. 10, 2018
Can Special Effects Be Special Again?
How the VFX industry plateaued — and where it might go from here.
By
Bilge Ebiri
method makeup-ing
May 24, 2018
Hollywood, It’s Okay to Cast Old Actors As Old People
Old-age makeup and digital de-aging mean more actors are playing characters wildly different from their real ages.
By
Nate Jones
Dec. 12, 2017
Every
Star Wars
Prequel CGI Character, Ranked From Tolerable to Inexcusable
From Jar Jar to Sebulba.
By
Emily Yoshida
do robots dream of cgi versions of famous actresses from the 80s
Oct. 10, 2017
Male Stars Get to Age. Women Get CGI Re-creations of Their Younger Selves.
Male actors get to reprise their famous roles again and again, while women must be content to see their hottest selves frozen in digital amber.
By
Nate Jones
oscar bait
May 25, 2017
Give Emma Watson an Oscar for Keeping a Straight Face in
Beauty and the Beast
It takes extraordinary talent not to laugh.
By
Tolly Wright
fitness
Apr. 11, 2017
Ludacris Shows Us the Easiest Way to Get a Six-pack for Summer: CGI
We can’t look away.
By
Gabriella Paiella
backstories
Feb. 8, 2017
That Crazy Kitchen Explosion in
Legion
? It Wasn’t CGI.
It was all practical effects.
By
Abraham Riesman
select all
Jan. 20, 2017
It Would Be Very Easy to Build a Computer-Generated Likeness of Donald Trump
Just in case Trump decides he doesn’t want to do the job.
By
Brian Feldman
doctor strange
Nov. 4, 2016
What Inspired
Doctor Strange
’s Visual Effects?
Visual-effects supervisor Stephane Ceretti explains.
By
Abraham Riesman
doctor strange
Nov. 1, 2016
Doctor Strange
Has the Most Inventive CGI of the Modern Superhero Era
We’ve grown bored. This wakes us up.
By
Abraham Riesman
Oct. 31, 2016
The Walking Dead
’s Khary Payton on King Ezekiel
“He doesn’t cope like everybody else, but that doesn’t mean it’s a fantasy.”
By
E. Alex Jung
Sept. 12, 2016
Here Are 7 of the Most Awful CGI Moments in Movie History
Oh, that Scorpion King.
By
Eva Hill
obits
May 24, 2016
Movie-Theater Roller Coaster Animator John McLaughin Dead at 46
He also worked on
Shark Tale
,
Over the Hedge
, and the
Kung Fu Panda
films.
By
Nate Jones
vulture remix
Aug. 17, 2015
The Peanuts Kids Hate the CGI
Peanuts
Movie
Our latest “Vulture Remix.”
By
Diane Bullock
and
Mike Schuster
please explain
Aug. 5, 2015
This Video Explains Why CGI Doesn’t Suck (Unless It Does)
From
Jurassic Park
to
The Avengers
.
By
E. Alex Jung
ask an expert
July 21, 2015
How Exactly Did
Ant-Man
Make Michael Douglas Look So Young?
Some stickers, lots of CGI, and multiple viewings of
Wall Street
.
By
Nate Jones
oral history
July 1, 2015
The Making of
T2
’s Awesome Liquid-Metal Effect
How the T-1000’s coolest trick came to be.
By
Kenny Herzog
roarrrrrrrrrrr
Apr. 1, 2014
Watch a Bizarre Version of
Jurassic Park
Without the CGI
But also watch the original movie because it’s very good.
By
Lindsey Weber
boardwalk empire
Jan. 24, 2012
See What
Boardwalk Empire
Looks Like With (and Without) Special Effects
So
Boardwalk Empire wasn’t
filmed in the roaring twenties?
By
Eliot Glazer
movies
Nov. 17, 2011
Woody Woodpecker Feature Film in Development
Makers of
Despicable Me
and
The Lorax
behind project.
music
July 9, 2010
Watch a CGI Reenactment of Justin Bieber’s Life and Struggles Online
Let us take a moment of silence to remember the time Bieber went to an STD clinic.
By
Edith Zimmerman
the goreacle
July 2, 2010
CGI Al Gore Is Scary, Steamy, and More Than a Little Bit Poodley
This time, the Taiwan-made animated video explaining Gore’s accused sexual harassment includes a cameo by his former boss!
By
Chris Rovzar
werewolves
Oct. 30, 2009
New Moon
Director Promises That Werewolf CGI Isn’t As Crappy As It Seems
“We’re still tweaking them to the last possible day,” explains Chris Weitz.
By
Mark Graham