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The CGI used in Westworld was the first to incorporate CGI with live action (as it says under that YouTube clip)and it uses a (just paraphrasing off the internet here!) pixelation process that was developed for the film and became the basis of the next generation of CGI in movies. So it's probably the most important use of CGI.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Also, sometimes CGI can make some amazing visuals. Interstellar is a good example, thinking specifically about the Black Hole scene.
The VFX team actually worked with astrophysisicsts to work out what a black hole spinning at the speed of light would look like and essentially built a simulation to create the images.
The only reason the Black Hole was spinning in the first place was because Nolan, the director, wanted 7 years of time dilation on the planet for every hour on earth and the only way to make the physics work was to have a superfast spinning black hole.
CG stuff can be absolutely painstaking and unnoticeable or incredibly janky and in your face. There's also a lot which you immediately know must be CGI because of what it is, but it's utterly photo realistic.
Watch The Corridor Crew on YouTube. They have a great series called VFX artists react. It's brilliant insight, and I really enjoy it when they try to figure out how something was done.
Again, sorry.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow had no physical sets if I remember correctly. (sorry again).
I'm repeating others when I say that I have no problem with CGI where it supports a ripping yarn.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Going back to my OP though what I meant is I don't agree with the idea of "CGI movie" to describe films developed as blockbusters as an insult.
Yes whole films have computer generated backdrops and sets, most famously the Star Wars prequels which were shot almost entirely on green screen, but that isn't what I meant by "CGI movie".
Sky Captain is a steampunk fantasy movie, the SW prequels are Space Opera, the Pixar movies tend to be character dramas, those are what they are, CGI is how they do the SFX.
There is quite a fun series of YouTube videos with experts going through films and analysing how accurate they are.
And then people with swords kicking at other people with swords. Which is nonsense on every level. And the best way to lose a foot.
Then there's the truly crap fight choreography like Iron Fist.
And best of all, lightsabre fights in Star Wars. These guys are supposed to be expert, über-disciplined, ascetic swordsmen and women...
Yes, I think you're right about the 'self-danger' side. You'd think the Jedi would evolve a sword style that revolved around avoiding the possibility of chopping your own bollocks off.