How is that even possible. Even more impressive now
Holy Shit
people used to.. make things?
Lol, lmao
Assorted other tools
Such as?
Hammers.
aliens
glue
Chewed gum.
One of the last pre CGI movies
What is this even supposed to mean? Like the "CGI era" Started with Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985 or something ignoring the fact that it was only used incidentally until way later?
one of the last pre-CGI movies
I thought this was ridiculous, but it turns out Tron came out in 1982 two weeks later
Nah Tron was first
and it looks like shit. the movies fine but the practical effects do not look good. looks like rubber on strings.
Tron was mostly traditional animation made to look like CGI as I recall.
apparently if you add up all the CGI in Tron it's 15 minutes of screentime, which is enough imo. Jurassic Park didn't have that much CG either when you compare it to the total runtime. It also mixed practical with CG.
nowadays we put things through a ghibli ai, not much but honest work
one of the last pre-CGI movies
The first movie (that wasn't an outlier like Tron) that used CGI to a significant degree was Jurassic Park and it isn't even close. Not sure what he means by one of the last.
Yeah, but I'm not sure it's even that clear-cut either, and not even that the computers couldn't do some shit like that if you had a good enough rig and had enough time. The fact is some shit was just easier, quicker, and less expensive to do the old fashioned way. That's the threshold that needed to actually be crossed, even if you technically could do shit.
Still it's a stupid statement when CGI wasn't widely used in movies for another decade.
How come Marvel did not sue them? Was not THE THING copyrighted??
Yep, it just screams cluess Zoomer.
lawnmower man beats jp by a year.
destroys the practical effects industry to usher in the era of pajeet fuelled cgi slop movies
helps create modern blockbuster
destroys modern blockbuster
you can't copyright a single words you haven't coined
It is kinda misleading, if you read it one way it makes it seem like everything after 1982 was MCU slop.
Swedish people
Lucas is of German, Swiss German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent
they were the original jeets all along?? where did the "sovl" go?
reddit is such a hellscape. I can't even go there for ironic curiosity
What a waste of time and effort, thank god we can make AI do everything for us now
The title screen was created using a trash bag, a fish tank, smoke, and a bit of fire
your mother's cooking
I mean you can tell, it looks fake. Good for its time but dated now.
the original robocop has no computer effects aside from his HUD
Pretty sure the HUD was all hand drawn in. Like when they screw on and the green lines get closer that was hand drawn, same as the intro title.
Computers and generated imagery
The scene where Blair-thing grabs the molotovs with it's tentacle is stop motion animation.
Because the true name is Das Ding
i hate zoomers so fucking much, bros
star wars had cgi
because zoomzoom this the thing predates ben grimm by 10 years
implying The Thing didn't have Computer Generated Imagery
Yeah, America used to make things. Then they moved all the factories to Communist China and other third world countries and even today are outsourcing tech jobs to the cow dung munchers in South Asia India.
Are you watching the movie at 4k resolution with 60 fps? If you watched the movie as it was originally intended, the special effects won't be so fake looking.
CG animated stuff like you see in video games on the other hand can look pretty good higher resolutions and running at higher frames.
Methyl cellulose slime
Nah. The last monster looks kinda goofy, but everything else held up really well. The tentacle dog and the spider-head in particular are masterworks.
everything in the movie very clearly looks like rubber or stop motion
Yes?
They still make movies today that aren't all CG anyway. I don't know why people think there's some definitive cut off. Tarantino is still making films. Aardman still produce animation. I would imagine something like Nosferatu probably mostly sticks to makeup effects.
The CGI revolution and its consequences has been a disaster for the kino race
Yep and far better than the Remake too. The practical effects remain interesting all this time later while the Remake's cgi just looks like weightless, unscary goop on screen.
Crystal meth
Well, yeah CGI started really in 1985.
The film is notable for including the first fully computer-generated photorealistic animated character, a knight composed of elements from a stained glass window. This effect was the first CG character to be scanned and painted directly onto film using a RGB laser. The effect was created by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic and John Lasseter.
The chess game was computer generated and not a real chess board
Check mate.
painted directly onto film using a RGB laser
Never heard of that being done before and after looking it up, man does it look good.
youtu.be
Even if the model itself looks a bit shit, the actual effect of being on the film instead of being a composited layer sells the effect so much more convincingly.
Screws, dildos, ham?
How would we know, it was a different time. Now we just buy shit already made.
boomers were pretty creative, its weird to think old people lived before smartphones
what they even did all day?
Smoke and mirrors
Lived.
And planned to meet up and hang out.
Sex