CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger

August 20, 2009 @ 7:44 pm

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I watched an R5 of Terminator Salvation today (the rest of you will have to wait for the actual Terminator Salvation DVD) and I kind of forgot that Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a CGI representation of himself. I’m still very impressed with how well they managed to pull that off. The only thing weird looking about the CGI version is the eyes. They don’t seem to be focusing on anything.

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Food advertisements are going the way of CGI

July 22, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

McDonald’s Versus from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

This is pretty darn realistic. I wonder if it’s cheaper to create food on the computer than to have a food stylist work hours to make it look perfect. I wonder which person would work less hours. [via]

Putting some color into a black and white Paris

June 12, 2009 @ 11:00 am

Reulf from Charlesque on Vimeo.

Reulf is a student video project from the University of Paris VIII directed by Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Klipfel & Jean-François Jégo. In the short, several CGI characters walk around Paris and literally paint some color onto the bland black-and-white city. Cute. :)

CGI Megan Fox is the hottest Megan Fox ever

June 12, 2009 @ 10:55 am

Landline TV has created this short video to show off the state-of-the-art CGI that is Megan Fox in the upcoming Transformers 2 film. It’s a little known fact, but the entire special effects budget for Transformers 2 actually went into created a CGI Megan Fox that was hotter than hot. The first Megan Fox was pretty good, but this new Megan is supposed to blow that one out of the water. [via]

The difference between the original Star Wars films and the prequels

May 29, 2009 @ 2:01 pm

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Chefelf has created this striking graphic to illustrate the main difference between the original Star Wars films and the prequels which came years later.

Wolverine has cartoon claws

March 6, 2009 @ 12:14 pm

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I just watched the final trailer for the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine film and it is awesome…except for the computer generated imagery integration.

What is up with Wolverine’s claws?! They look cartoonish and straight out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Even in some other parts of the trailer when Wolverine is clawing his way through cars, it looks incredibly bad.

I think the problem is that the root of the claws are missing some sort of realistic shadow. At the moment, they just seem to be drawn on top of the film itself. I don’t remember it looking bad at all in the other X-Men films. What’s up with this one, huh?

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