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New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain Sight

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Re: New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain Sight

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Post by smackfu »

dr_zoidberg wrote: post #9
emsy wrote: post #5

Just recently I rewatched the first 3 Jurassic Park movies and found they aged really well. You never have the feeling that there's to much CGI because they striked an awesome balance between CGI, animatronics and sceneography (especially the first movie, but the other two are still above average imho). On the other hand, many of my friends agree that The Hobbit already looked bad when it came out. The only weird thi…

I thought the first Jurassic Park had little to none CGI, going with animatronics, puppets and on-stage vissual effects. Is there any article to read about where and how CGI was used in that movie?

The canonical source for info would be Cinefex issue #55, which came out at the time and went through all the special effects shots. I think you can get it for $5 through their iPad app.

Apparently it is four minutes of CG out of fourteen minutes of dinosaur effects. But four minutes of CG is a lot of shots for the era.

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Post by icegreentea »

qznc wrote: post #4

Why do the mountains in the background even matter?

Because now you have a giant mountain (roughly a triangle), and the giant dinosaur (roughly a triangle) pointing more or less together. This helps focus the attention / energy of the shot.

It's definitely subtle, but a good amount of film making (or hell, photography) is that way.

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Post by u02sgb »

Shivetya wrote: post #3

As long as it does not lead to endless edits post release I am fine with tweaking it. However recent CGI-fests like the Hobbit series do make me think some directors don't know restraint.

"some directors don't know restraint."

IMO the Hobbit trilogy was pure indulgence.

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Post by thissideup »

Shivetya wrote: post #3

As long as it does not lead to endless edits post release I am fine with tweaking it. However recent CGI-fests like the Hobbit series do make me think some directors don't know restraint.

If you're not Hobbit-ed out, check out the Tolkien Edit. Some cool guy edited all three films into one 4 1/2 hour epic. Big improvement.

https://tolkieneditor.wordpress.com/

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Post by Agustus »

When Cloverfield first trailer came out, there was a shot where the Statue of Liberty's head was flung into a street. The first version of it appeared to be a rough cut CGI [1], then the second version came out of the trailer and the head was thoroughly improved[2].

I know that there is a need for buzz to be created, but where does the line between changes and false advertising occur. If for some reason I was super psyched about the dinosaur jumping out of the water and eating the shark and the scene is cut from the movie, then how is this different from car sales saying they have a car with a/c on the lot and then finding it never existed.

1. Trailer 1 screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bqkryTL.jpg

2. Trailer 2 screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/A9uVtnx.jpg

Re: New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain Sight

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Post by freshyill »

u02sgb wrote: post #13
Shivetya wrote: post #3

As long as it does not lead to endless edits post release I am fine with tweaking it. However recent CGI-fests like the Hobbit series do make me think some directors don't know restraint.

"some directors don't know restraint." IMO the Hobbit trilogy was pure indulgence.

I watched all of the special features on the LOTR extended editions back in the day. It seemed like they were extremely proud of their "bigatures". It's a shame that they seemed to have completely abandoned a technique that worked so well.

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Post by kbenson »

Agustus wrote: post #17

When Cloverfield first trailer came out, there was a shot where the Statue of Liberty's head was flung into a street. The first version of it appeared to be a rough cut CGI [1], then the second version came out of the trailer and the head was thoroughly improved[2]. I know that there is a need for buzz to be created, but where does the line between changes and false advertising occur. If for some reason I was super p…

Movies posters generally don't represent a real scene in the movie, but are staged for a reason. That could be to relay who the actors are, or to set a tone. I'm not sure how trailers are different. I think the problem is that you believe something about them that is not true, which is that they are made up entirely of scenes from the movie. Historically that may have been the case, but it was almost purely because that was the easiest and cheapest way to get a high quality trailer. We've moved past that now, and it's possible to easily represent the feel of the movie using custom material in trailers, like it's always been for movie posters.

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Post by nitrogen »

Agustus wrote: post #17

When Cloverfield first trailer came out, there was a shot where the Statue of Liberty's head was flung into a street. The first version of it appeared to be a rough cut CGI [1], then the second version came out of the trailer and the head was thoroughly improved[2]. I know that there is a need for buzz to be created, but where does the line between changes and false advertising occur. If for some reason I was super p…

Wasn't there a Bourne movie trailer that contained a scene or quotation that never occurred in the movies?
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