Has CGI in movies become better or worse?

[TeslaCoil]

From Jurassic Park to The Hobbit, do you think CGI has become less convincing or more convincing?

I started pondering this when I noticed the distinct difference in the computer animation From the first 3 Lord of the Rings movies and the Hobbit. I found the older movies special effects to be more convincing rather than the Hobbit. I think that its due to the fact that they mixed CGI with actual models. Perhaps its due to budget, or maybe we've become more lazy as visual artists?

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[Tomcat]

Yeah, it's gotten worse IMO.
Movie CGI anyways. CGI in TV has gotten much, much better.

[.:FancyPants:.]

the new die hard movie pretty much confirmed that today's action movies are literally all CGI.

I think that its due to the fact that they mixed CGI with actual models.

agreed.

i think CGI has gotten better, but it's made movies worse :S

[ShadowsfeaR]

Life of Pi. Enough said.

[hgpucom]

I think it's a little of everything. Not every movie is made with the same people who make the CGI effects so all the outcomes are different. Sometimes CGI may look good 10 years ago or 10 years from now. Personally, I think they have gotten better in their own "unique" way. Like, you can tell CGI is used most to express more detail in visuals rather than back then CGI, specifically in Jurassic Park, was great in some scenes where they did close up's on the dinosaurs but in other scenes you knew they were fake.

[TeslaCoil]

I think it's a little of everything. Not every movie is made with the same people who make the CGI effects so all the outcomes are different. Sometimes CGI may look good 10 years ago or 10 years from now. Personally, I think they have gotten better in their own "unique" way. Like, you can tell CGI is used most to express more detail in visuals rather than back then CGI, specifically in Jurassic Park, was great in some scenes where they did close up's on the dinosaurs but in other scenes you knew they were fake.

Even then, the digital representations of the Dinosaurs barely came short of the actual models. Which means there is something that you in fact can do right.

[comr4de]

Technology has improved such that the uncanny valley is shrinking, I'd say that it's gotten better across the board.

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CGI has gotten better, but at what cost?

[comr4de]

Has science gone too far?

[.:FancyPants:.]

is this image real or fake?

[Teneksi]

the uncanny valley is shrinking

https://www.google.com/search?q=chriddof&tbm=isch

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Has science gone too far?

is this image real or fake?

[.:FancyPants:.]

thought eski posted something like "% fail this question. will you?"
disappointed.

[Cybersix]

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[Flamecannon]

maybe we've become either too acquainted with it or we're growing older and noticing it more often

like beowulf
but even further back
blues clues man