Best CGI

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What movie/series/short work/demo/whatever has really great, "lifelike" CGI? The more CGI and spectacle, and the less soap the better, a good story is a bonus but not required.

If it's simply great but totally not lifelike, that's fine as well.


Edit: my long favorite is season 3 of Reboot. There are lots of things (like Star Wars 1-2, didn't see 3, or LOTR) with awesome parts, but I generally don't like to go through the boring soap around them.
 
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I think the Golem character from LOTR and Kong from KK are among the best uses of CGI to this day (perhaps with the pre-latest FF stepping on their toes).

They all look very CGIsh though, but i've recently had the opportunity of seeing the Korean masterpiece "The Host" and the creature there is simply amazing (WETA worked on it and some other team brought it's dynamics to life). It is so very lifelike and blends in with the environment so perfectly that I caught myself thinking of it as a real monstrocity that wasn't generated by supercomputers but was as natural as the birds singing on the tree near me at this very moment and that's gotta be the finest example of what CGI always strived for and what it should be in the end result.
 
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Where can I buy/download that?

I don't really mind if it looks very CGI, the Incredibles and Monsters, Inc were great. But if it is completely CGI and you cannot see it, that's even better of course.
 
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alexsok said:
Well I cannot really tell you where to dl it since it's not a warez forum after all ;)
I'm not sure it's even out in the U.S. yet (I saw it on a festival)

IMDB says it will be released in limited quantities on 9 March 2007 (it screened in the NY festival on September as well)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468492/

You can also find some trailers and videoclips from the movie here:
http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2006/DEFGH/Host,The/trailer.php
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Ah, sorry about that. I didn't get it that it was a movie trailer. :)

But I'll keep an eye on it!
 
For some more explanation: I think most movies and series aren't worth watching, as they lack any great story or immersion. But I really dig CGI, if done well. That can be: very unlifelike and computer generated, but with superb art direction and plot. Like Reboot. Except for season 4, because at that moment it became just a CGI soap. Like Star Trek, Babylon 5, and all the others. Lots of unneeded (and often rambling) character interaction, while not much else happens. You have to forward to the good-looking parts.

My best movie or series would be totally CGI, with optional a smal amount of live actors, improbable but believable, with a great story and heaps of immersion and suspense. And a few great-looking babes, of course. ;)
 
Btw:

alexsok said:
(perhaps with the pre-latest FF stepping on their toes).
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Yes, I saw it. My nephew really digs that. But it looked rather flat to me, and it was mostly about the emotional challenges between Japanese super heroes and which one had the most "intimidating power", with a rather unintelligeble story. Like DragonBallZ. Lots of "charging up" by shouting, jumping, immortal supernatural swordfighters who fight by showing off and insulting, and not much else.

Like, pro-wrestling and superhero comics? Is that why Americans dig Anime so much? Hm, I never thought about that. Interesting.
 
alexsok said:
Are you referring to this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/
or this one
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385700/
Cause I liked the first one better....

There is also one of the segments of the Animatrix that blew my mind off:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/
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Thanks for the links.

I was pretty sure I saw "spirits within", but it doesn't look like the screenshots on that page. I'm confused.

I think I'll get and watch them all three again, because you recommend them and to make sure.
 
Well, for me, at the moment it's Pirates of the Caribbean 2, hands down. Throughout the whole move, I thought Davy Jones was an awesome Stan Winston creation - I was shocked when I read he was fully CGI. Sorry WETA guys, but ILM is back. ('bout time!)
 
Snyder said:
Well, for me, at the moment it's Pirates of the Caribbean 2, hands down. Throughout the whole move, I thought Davy Jones was an awesome Stan Winston creation - I was shocked when I read he was fully CGI. Sorry WETA guys, but ILM is back. ('bout time!)
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Yes, I thought Davy Jones and his crew was down right amazing. Easily the best I've ever seemed, the crew didn't appear to be so flat and fake as most CGI is.
 
Snyder said:
Well, for me, at the moment it's Pirates of the Caribbean 2, hands down. Throughout the whole move, I thought Davy Jones was an awesome Stan Winston creation - I was shocked when I read he was fully CGI. Sorry WETA guys, but ILM is back. ('bout time!)
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Davy Jones was full CGI ? :oops: That's impressive, I never even considered that possibility.
 
trinibwoy said:
Davy Jones was full CGI ? :oops: That's impressive, I never even considered that possibility.
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I know that feeling. :)
http://www.ilm.com/theshow/

You know what I find so impressive? I've just rented it a few days ago to watch it again - and though I know now that it's CGI and watched the scenes with him very closely, looking for "that CGIish look". (Which also plagues Gollum* to some extent, when you look closely). But it wasn't there.
Yes, some of the other crew members are relatively easy to spot as CGI creatures (when looking for it), but Davy Jones...simply amazing.

EDIT: Just stumbled onto this thread (With participation of John Knoll himself):
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=379460&page=1&pp=15

It says a lot when even professionals are fooled...


*The one from the LoTR movies, not our forum member.
 
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There's a lot of amzing anime done on CGI. Not everything is crap like DBZ, there's a lot of great stories and very mature stories out there. There's one that was done by 1 guy alone on his laptop, he and his girlfriend even voiced it and it's a masterpiece. It's called "Hoshi no Koe" or a Voice from a Distant Star in English. The CG itself might not be all that hot, but the story more than makes up for it and it's just a short 30 min movie.
 
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