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visual effects and film go hand-in-hand
Nowadays, some of the most impressive uses of computer-generated images are when films meld practicality and technical wizardry to create something truly
amazing. Take Rachel in "Blade Runner 2049" or Michael Douglas in "Ant-Man and the Wasp" to be honest
Films like "Blade Runner 2049" and "Ex Machina" couldn't have been created without the use of CGI
But visual effects are always used in places where practical effects would be too expensive or too dangerous or wouldn't work
Same thing with the older films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in the first "Iron Man"
Jon Favreau and the much much smaller Marvel Studios actually built The first Iron Man armor and
created mark 2 & 3 from the waist up "The first half hour of being in the Iron Man suit is like
the coolest Halloween
you ever had except
you're alone in the trailer before they call you on the set or whatever or you're getting ready and you just catch a glimpse and
You go. That's right
Grandma, would be proud". What they couldn't do in real life for what didn't look too clean, they fixed in post with visual effects
That's why Iron Man suit in the first "Iron Man" looked genuinely photorealistic
Because they actually built the Iron Man suit
But for some reason for the next few movies such as "Iron Man 3", "Avengers Age of Ultron"
"Civil War" and "Infinity War" they also built the Iron Man suit, but it was less refined
They used the Iron Man armors sculpt just to know where Iron Man was in the scene and to capture the lighting of the scene
so they could replicate the environment and lighting conditions in CGI modeling software to make it look like Iron Man is really there. And
It's not just Iron Man, Marvel has started replacing practical work with visual effects for almost everything
So yes Marvel has a CGI problem. It's not that they're CGI looks fake all the time or it looks terrible
It's just that sometimes it sticks out. The visual effects for Marvel movies are usually so well integrated
Into the scenes that whenever something looks not as refined or not as well animated
It sticks out like a sore thumb and this isn't me saying CGI is bad or VFX is bad in any way
It's essential to creating a blockbuster film at this point and it really makes things look that much more spectacular
Incredible visual effects are used everywhere in Marvel movies. You don't even notice
They're usually implemented in these films and places you wouldn't even imagine
But there's also cases where visual effects are over utilized
This became truly apparent to me when Avengers age of Ultron came out and I saw Iron Man's final suit in that movie
It looked like a PlayStation 4 game and it does look pretty bad
So bad that it makes Ultron look good, but Ultron
Also looked pretty bad and I'm talking about his final form here
see Ultron looked rather good there were a lot of intricate pieces and he had lights inside his body giving a creepy effect and then
He put on some weird
vibranium armor and that vibranium armor looked like it had specular Roughness set all the way up the metal looked extremely matte and not really
Metal it looked like he had craft foam on his body
Even Hulk was more beautiful in the first Avengers film in an age of Ultron
He looked slightly less good somehow and then in Ragnarok
He also looks slightly less less good. Either way what I just mentioned isn't really enough to take you out of the movie
I'm not entirely sure if Iron Man 3 was the cause for Marvel being overly reliant on CGI
but when Iron Man 3 came out there were a bunch of Iron Man armors that were never built and they were all CGI and
Maybe just maybe
Marvel realized that "Hey we don't need to make everything practically"
and decided to start getting VFX companies to do everything in "Ant-Man" the same thing that happened in "Iron Man 3"
fully CGI armors and "Avengers Age of Ultron" a fully CGI Iron Man suit
Happened here. Marvel created the Yellow Jacket suit, which is a completely CGI suit
This was never made there is no actor underneath a black and yellow suit here
They did a pretty damn good job. This pretty much is perfect
But after phase 2 the CGI gets a little bonkers for example spider-man's costume
CGI baby now if I'm being honest, it looks gorgeous, but next to the other characters it sticks out at times
They actually built a costume a real one which looks so much better than what they ended up with. Not the design
but the fact that it actually looks
Tangible when you look at it you feel as if you can grab it
Spider-man's suit in "Civil War" doesn't really feel this way. Even more awkward is the Iron-man suit in "Civil War"
They straight up covered the practical armor sculpt with CGI
Not only making it look that much more fake but making it appear as if Robert Downey Jr's
head is floating on the Iron Man suit, when here it looks real because you know
It's actually there and then we get to "Spider-Man Homecoming" which debuts
Arguably the best spider-man suit ever made on screen and then completely covers it with CGI
that is very
Frustrating the look at. Not necessarily because the CGI is poor because I mean come on even though it looks strange at times
It's better than most of the CGI in movies these days
It's because they had a perfectly fine spider-man suit that had been tailored to fit
Tom Holland and it was beautiful and it was covered up
there's a shot in the trailers that have Tom Holland as spider-man climbing the Washington Monument and you can see this scene in behind the
Scenes footage and in the film it's completely replaced with CGI
What was the point?
So that begs the question if you're just gonna replace an actor then why bother even having Tom Holland on set just have him record
lines at a studio in my opinion this looks much better than this and
Then there's a close-up of the suit and it does not look great
This drone looks even worse they could have made an actual model of this drone and only animated the legs
But they decided to make the entire thing CG and look I for one love "Spider-Man Homecoming" but you can critique what you love
I think they made the homemade suit look perfect and legitimately photo realistic. That is CGI
Not the real suit
But the main suit can look very fake of times not all the time most of the time it actually looks pretty decent
There's plenty of times where it just doesn't work now
let me do a side-by-side comparison of the homecoming suit when it's CGI and
When it's the actual suit with touch-ups and posts to make the eyes move and remove wrinkles
The biggest reason why the homecoming suit doesn't work is because the suit is meant to pretty much stick on to Peters body
You know in comic books when?
Superheroes are pretty much naked if they didn't have suits on like you can see the anatomy of the body
That makes no sense. Right? It's cool. But in real life that doesn't really work. Well, they applied this to the homecoming suit
There are literally no
Wrinkles on this suit no creases or any thing and that is pretty much near impossible in real life
Why the amazing spider-man to suit looks that much better is because they allowed the suits wrinkle and flow
It actually seemed like something on top of a human body and wind
Reacted to it "And notice the wrinkling detail in his suit
The new suit design is much looser than it was in previous iterations
So full-on cloths and gave us the opportunity to bring out another layer of detail with wrinkles driven not only by his movement
But also react to the environment like fluttering in the breeze during free fall"
This does not happen with the homecoming suit because again, it's stuck to Peters body
That's why the homemade spider-man suit looks that much more practical and realistic
because since it's such a baggy suit and makes it feel way more tangible than something really smooth and
Then we get to the biggest offender in my opinion "Black Panther" where as I like to call the movie
CGI Panther, so we have a beautiful suit that's actually been made to fit chadwick boseman
We have a beautiful suit that's been made to fit Michael B, Jordan. And what do we do?
CGI EVERYWHERE
See obviously, it's not like Marvel does everything they don't do the VFX or anything like that
They outsource a lot of their scenes to the effects companies so they can do the visual effects
One of these companies is Method Studios and Method studio single-handedly made Black Panthers final act
Incredibly ugly which is incredibly disappointing because their work is impeccable
They brought us some of the best visual effects. I've seen in any movie. So what happened with Black Panther?
I don't know but it's not good this gorgeous shot in the first "Black Panther" trailer was replaced with this
This is objectively bad
Not just the VFX
But lighting too they had a beautiful background on everything and looks like they cut out and pasted chadwick boseman
's head onto a completely different scene
And
Of course CGI is important CGI is essential for creating worlds and characters with CGI and visual effects one can make dreams
reality
But sometimes in the process of making dreams reality
Reality itself was also skewed. Killmonger's final suit was actually made
This is a real suit and in the film they replace the suit completely with CGI
I don't think there are any shots that have the actual suit on display. Maybe this scene which kill monger dies
I have no idea and the most disgusting thing I've ever seen is this final fight
which has some of the worst choreography and
Cinematography I've ever seen since the first x-men you remember this scene in the first x-men movie in which they use a fake
floating camera everything a CGI
"Black Panther" a 2018 movie copied "X-Men" a movie that came out in
2000 and with a completely dark atmosphere
We can't appreciate the textures on the CGI model because there's no light to have these textures pop
So we're stuck with two cartoons fighting and it's so ugly
It's genuinely ugly as hell Batman V. Superman's final fight may have been a mess
But hell, it looks light years better than this and look Ryan Coogler can direct action
He directed creed and he directed this fight which was pretty damn good. So I have no idea what happened here
It's almost like Marvel wanted a CGI fight and Kugler was like no and Marvel was just like, okay
Have you seen Marvel future fights trailer for Black Panther it looks almost the same that's not good
thankfully Marvel most definitely put all their money in infinity war and it shows because everything looks beautiful like for example
Method' Studios worked on infinity war they did these scenes and it looks fantastic and another company
Framestore also went all-out with the CGI
No stops just impeccable visual effects and tracking like I've never seen
The only thing that looks strange in the movie to me is the nanotech effect because at times it looks beautiful and sometimes it can
Look really really fake like this shot and this one this looks kind of funky
But again, I can't even begin to imagine how hard it must be to make this look good
So props to the VFX teams
But forget infinity war. "Spider-Man Far From Home" has just finished filming and look at this suit. This suit is arguably the best
Live-action spider-man suit at the moment. I like it more than the homecoming spider-man suit and I bet you it will be covered in CGI
Seriously, take a good look at how beautiful it is in the set photos because it will most likely all be CGI by the time
The movie comes out and it shouldn't be like that
Seriously, it's kind of sad. It's almost like covering up the hard work and attention that costume designers put into these suits
So closing statements Marvel, please
Stop seeing visual effects. I think there are bad influence and
Maybe go talk to practical effects instead or maybe
You can have a 2-way and you can have visual effects and practical effects at the same time. Hey guys
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