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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9399114" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I have been thinking about this a lot because I frequently go to CGI as my chief complaint in movies, but then I plenty of newer movies that use it to a high degree (particularly Chinese films). I think my big gripe when I see it in something likely to show up at my local theater is it looks ugly (I can almost look past the glitchiness if they are still treating the CGI as an artistic medium). There was&nbsp; a movie that came out a few years ago called <a href="https://youtu.be/Yba215606Mc?si=KWr--pH6dKnDh-gP" target="_blank">Legend of the Demon Cat</a>. It uses a lot of CGI, it also uses a lot of practical set design that I think gives the movie an interesting sense of characters moving through structures, but even when the CGI breaks down (and it does in places) it still looks like effort went into designing things like the color palette. It isn't muddy or confusing, it just looks beautiful. I think when CGI is treated well, it can work. But like you say too often it is like the director just handed the scenes to someone who doesn't care about shot composition, telling a story in the space battle they are depicting and giving you a sense of awe (it is more often just overwhelming in a confusing way, rather than a majestic one)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9399114, member: 85555"] I have been thinking about this a lot because I frequently go to CGI as my chief complaint in movies, but then I plenty of newer movies that use it to a high degree (particularly Chinese films). I think my big gripe when I see it in something likely to show up at my local theater is it looks ugly (I can almost look past the glitchiness if they are still treating the CGI as an artistic medium). There was a movie that came out a few years ago called [URL='https://youtu.be/Yba215606Mc?si=KWr--pH6dKnDh-gP']Legend of the Demon Cat[/URL]. It uses a lot of CGI, it also uses a lot of practical set design that I think gives the movie an interesting sense of characters moving through structures, but even when the CGI breaks down (and it does in places) it still looks like effort went into designing things like the color palette. It isn't muddy or confusing, it just looks beautiful. I think when CGI is treated well, it can work. But like you say too often it is like the director just handed the scenes to someone who doesn't care about shot composition, telling a story in the space battle they are depicting and giving you a sense of awe (it is more often just overwhelming in a confusing way, rather than a majestic one) [/QUOTE]

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