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Arcsquad12 posted:The CGI in Titan A.E came in two flavours: the acceptable but dated starships, and the "what the gently caress were they thinking?" Drej monstrosities. IMO, a lot of the CGI looked weird when juxtaposed with the traditional animation, but on its own (especially for the time), it's pretty loving incredible. Although the music choices could be pretty bizarre.
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This is Peter Rabbit , on Nickelodeon in the US and Ceebeebies in the UK. The more I watch this the more I'm convinced it's made with a videogame engine. The texture resolution is relatively low, there's no variation in surface reflectivity, there's patchy simulated grass, you can see tessellation in some of the models, etc. I think it's actually a pretty clever, very cheap way to make cartoons, even if it does look like a PS3 game. Assuming it is made in a game engine, but I'd be surprised if no one had thought of this, given the power of something like the latest Unreal engine.
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Jul 19, 2015 11:00
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EvilGenius posted:This is Peter Rabbit , on Nickelodeon in the US and Ceebeebies in the UK. I doubt it. All the assets and animation still have to be created in 3d modelling apps. Nothing has to be rendered in real-time (which is the whole point of a game engine).
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Jul 19, 2015 11:12
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I know that at one point Lorne Lanning was talking about following up Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath with a new game that would have a tie-in television show that used the game's assets to save money, but nothing ever came of it. Also once years ago some people at Epic made a fake teaser trailer for an effects test where they did the Sin City/300 thing with live actors in front of backgrounds that were rendered in the Unreal engine but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:08
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This music video won the 1993 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt87bLX7m_o
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Jul 19, 2015 21:32
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GorfZaplen posted:This music video won the 1993 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects Note: May actually be loving awesome.
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Jul 19, 2015 21:36
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Yeah that video still completely rules
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Jul 20, 2015 02:40
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I watched a bit of this as a kid and somehow wasn't terrified. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCKQhVzqXy4
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Jul 20, 2015 03:08
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GorfZaplen posted:This music video won the 1993 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects This rocks. Not as hard as Sledgehammer (which is imo the best music video ever made) but still.
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Jul 20, 2015 03:28
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There was a Cryptkeeper spinoff that was a kid's gameshow. The set pieces were mostly conventional, but this was a gameshow in the 90s for kids, so of course they shoe-horned CGI in there. e: hah, there's even a Seinfeld question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKBkp9DoXaI&t=102s Velocity Raptor has a new favorite as of 04:07 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Jul 20, 2015 04:00
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GorfZaplen posted:This music video won the 1993 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects When I started this thread I couldn't have imagined it would end up giving me a man crush on Peter Gabriel. Celery Face posted:I watched a bit of this as a kid and somehow wasn't terrified. A kiddie ride of one these little turds is sat outside a supermarket near me, and I always wondered what it was from. EvilGenius has a new favorite as of 21:27 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Jul 20, 2015 21:24
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This immediately sprung to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-myQ-ZqmE
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Jul 20, 2015 22:36
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:"Jedi Rocks" is in my opinion the most offensive CGI atrocity in the 1997 Star Wars re-release. I know this is a late response, but holy poo poo -- I was beginning to think I dreamed that scene or something.  When you Google "star wars bar song" you get the Cantina song, so I couldn't find any evidence that this scene actually existed for 18 years.
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Jul 20, 2015 23:10
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Twanki posted:Holy crap, that reminds me of this incredibly obscure cartoon that showed up in the early 90's. Fyadophobic posted:I would be really interested to see how this was made. It definitely has a digital look too it; I'm curious to see how exactly they did all the skewing and scaling for this type of thing in 1992. There is very little from so early that looks as Flash-like as that. Wanted to follow up on this one. Yeah, there's definitely digital production in these clips. Most likely, the production studio was using Antics, the premier animation software before Macromedia hit the big time. Even by the 70s, it had camera control, articulated character animation, and tween/scale controls for everything (if you don't know what tweening is, here you go). Check out the close-up of the polar bear at 2:12. If you ignore the camera sway, they're probably doing a full-body tween between about seven keyframes of the bear (the head might have been articulated there, it's difficult to tell). In that shot, all the tweens are eased linearly, meaning it's just steady motion from one keyframe to the next. Gives it that kind of uneasy smoothness to the motion. Linear tweens are pretty good for some motion, though. When they're walking through the desert at 1:30, they just place the bear's walk cycle at one end, move and scale it to the other end, and tween all that linearly, and bam, you've got a character walking at a steady pace to the background. Some of the other characters are obviously a lot more intricate and walk around. For those, you're mostly using traditional frame animation. I'd also venture a guess that Antics didn't have easing methods for tweens back in the day, so you lose out on a lot of versatility there. For more reading, here are some early publications detailing Antics' functionalities. e: vvv speak for yourself, my parents bought me creature shock in '94 and this scarred me for life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZ8fco2cHE&t=44s f#a# has a new favorite as of 00:40 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 20, 2015 23:14
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They changed that scene and made a new song because Lucas thought the original looked and sounded too dated. Okay, sure, the puppets were kind of lovely and the version of "Lapti Nek" in the original film was kind of sloppy (which fits, considering the fact it was supposed to be a bunch of shady aliens performing the song live at Jabba's palace) but I'll still take them over... that poo poo. Here's the soundtrack version which sounds a lot tighter and, of course, isn't on any soundtrack album from the last 20 years (edit: oh, apparently it is on the "Complete Score" OST from 2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6J5EqFXErE Actual content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhzart631E Resident Evil 2's intro was scary as poo poo when I was 11 years old in 1998. I was a complete wuss of a kid, but I don't know how this ever freaked me out in the slightest. DMorbid has a new favorite as of 23:32 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Jul 20, 2015 23:30
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The intros to the two first Carmageddon games are spectacularly low-budget and janky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWFX0FPhOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyrYDSwD_gk I know the games were made on relatively low budgets, and thankfully most of the effort was spent on the gameplay instead of the videos. The intro to the first game is actually kinda well thought out and reasonably well framed and paced and the use of "Zero Signal" as the soundtrack is brilliant, but the animation just feels so drat janky. The intro to the second game is just poo poo.
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Jul 21, 2015 12:07
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The CGI does look pretty lovely now, but I think both of those do a pretty good job showing you what the game is all about. The first game's intro is definitely better, but I think 2's could have been pretty cool if they'd used one of the Iron Maiden songs that play during the gameplay. The cutscenes from Interstate '76 have already been posted, but who remembers that there was a sequel? The CGI got a bit of an upgrade, but... yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIpi3c1g634
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Jul 21, 2015 23:17
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f#a# posted:Wanted to follow up on this one. Yeah, there's definitely digital production in these clips. Most likely, the production studio was using Antics, the premier animation software before Macromedia hit the big time. Even by the 70s, it had camera control, articulated character animation, and tween/scale controls for everything (if you don't know what tweening is, here you go). Cool stuff. Gonna search for more of this stuff now.
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Doc Morbid posted:The CGI does look pretty lovely now, but I think both of those do a pretty good job showing you what the game is all about. The first game's intro is definitely better, but I think 2's could have been pretty cool if they'd used one of the Iron Maiden songs that play during the gameplay. That's utterly charmless. Interstate '76 had a rad style in the cutscenes.
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It's in fitting with the 80s being charmless.
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Since I started playing this game last night I might as well post this gem of pre-2000 CGI wizardry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQNO5wJtEA
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Jul 24, 2015 22:47
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GorfZaplen posted:This music video won the 1993 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects I forgot how much Peter Gabriel's CGI head at like 3:36 looks like a Half Life 2 character. Love the bit where the textures bug out.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:"Jedi Rocks" is in my opinion the most offensive CGI atrocity in the 1997 Star Wars re-release. What the christ is any of that. What did the original scene look like? Did it include any of that?
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MinistryofLard posted:What the christ is any of that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLjFjp8Fm6U The singer is still there, only as a charmingly janky puppet instead of a CGI disaster. The song is 1000 times better. It's atmospheric, not attention-grabbing. One thing I can't believe they never changed in the special editions is the part where the Twi'lek's boob comes out when she's struggling against Jabba.
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ALFbrot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLjFjp8Fm6U And importantly the old scene is almost half the length of the new one.
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ALFbrot posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLjFjp8Fm6U Sigh. The original scene is perfect. They sound exactly like you'd expect a band that's played hundreds of rough-as-gently caress space bars to sound.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:"Jedi Rocks" is in my opinion the most offensive CGI atrocity in the 1997 Star Wars re-release. Perfect example of why I will never ever watch any of the re-release bullshit Lucas squeezed out The original 3 were the only ones I ever saw and probably ever will And that CGI looks like a childrens cartoon
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Season 3 of the CGI Clone Wars show brought back Sy Snootles singing a Huttese version of Anything Goes from Temple of Doom.
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Babylon 5, in all it's terrible glory. I know they were working on a low budget, and doing the best they could with what they had, and that the overall quality of the show made all the bad SFX and CGI worth it... but man, it was bad then, and it only gets worse every time I see it.
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Jul 28, 2015 00:28
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I will never miss a chance to post this loving thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZapAjjTDbh4
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Jul 28, 2015 02:11
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Lest we forget Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future from 1988 - one of the earliest attempts to marry CG with live action on TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCf3hiCSr_U
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rndmnmbr posted:Babylon 5, in all it's terrible glory. The pilot movie The Gathering is god awful, and has the worst CGI of all, in addition to some of the worst TV acting I've ever seen. If that's all they had to go on I have to believe most networks would've passed on it, but back in the early 90s Fox was actually trying really hard to support bold new sci-fi TV.
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rndmnmbr posted:Babylon 5, in all it's terrible glory. Description says that's a fan render made on a Pentium MMX in 1998. I don't remember the show being anywhere near that bad. Time to see if it's on Netflix.
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Hakkesshu posted:I will never miss a chance to post this loving thing This is the funniest god drat thing
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Not a whole boatload, but much like Gabriel's Steam, the song saves it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhhQZK6Ztqs They had a pretty Grraarrgghh has a new favorite as of 02:34 on Jul 30, 2015 |
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rndmnmbr posted:Babylon 5, in all it's terrible glory. Yes that fan-made clip truly is indicative of the show  .Here's how it actually looks; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVhUcFgev-Q Hakkesshu posted:I will never miss a chance to post this loving thing We don't talk about Legend of the Rangers for good reason  . Crusade had the odd good moment though.
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Hakkesshu posted:I will never miss a chance to post this loving thing I had only heard about this for years and years and wondered about it, until now. It's worse than I ever imagined.
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FinnDiesel posted:Therion's album art of Theli is a fine example of lovely CGI. What the hell is that armadillo-dog-man supposed to be?  I always assumed Tom Sholz made it with a demo copy of TruSpace he got with CorelDraw.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yes that fan-made clip truly is indicative of the show I stand by my statement.
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This was my jam when I was like 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XFZooFFbE I still kinda love it.
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