"No greenscreen" doesn't mean what people think it means. www.youtube.com/shorts/lga78...

"No greenscreen" = more VFX

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Check out DNEG's list of 886 VFX artists creating all the CGI and compositing for the shots in #TheOdyssey that were not finished practically, in-camera. www.dneg.com/our-work/the...

For The Odyssey, Matt Damon was created with a puppet instead of relying on CGI

Seeing all the DNEG CGI artists on Linkedin point to their name in the credits of The Odyssey after crunching on its CGI for months and then going to social media and seeing everyone say how it avoided CGI is something else. (actually it's not something else -- it's the same as always)

This is awesome

Howie Day@howieeday.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hello! Here's the latest from my Star Wars nonsense - I just finished up the Mon Calamari Frigate I started working on back in 2020, finally, and decided to make a quick video of it with some other ships that I'd made! 4K in the 🧵!

Raise your hand if you think these two look identical

So the USA, leading with science, uniting the world, cooperating with allies against common threats and that stuff, yes?

Independence Day Speech

ALT: Independence Day Speech

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So Five Nights at Freddy's 2 also used CGI for the creatures, despite the "completely practical" buzz. Video by @vsgro.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@v_sgro/vide...

Five nights at Freddy’s 2 VFX #vfx #filmtok #fivenightsatfreddys #FNAF #movies

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This is disappointing. You would think a low budget production would be more honest and down to earth, giving credit to the people who made their movie, but no. Listen to "Primate" (2026) dissing their own CGI by Outpost VFX. Video by @vsgro.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@v_sgro/vide...

May 2026 be the year this marketing strategy finally ends? I’m honestly tired of speaking on how lying about methodology is harmful for on set and post production crafts, and how we need to start bein...

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Besides carrying our interstellar address, descriptions of our DNA and instructions on how to build a 1970'es record player, Voyager contains this photo to tell aliens what kind of people they are dealing with (there is no joke here, this is an actual photo on Voyager)

Accurate. I love all things related to filmmaking, but every single post about older filmmaking is "DID YOU KNOW STANLEY KUBRICK TIED HIS SHOELACE WITHOUT CGI" and it's so exhausting. It's all movie magic, you can celebrate one without pitting it against another. www.youtube.com/shorts/qzuH0...

How Disney invented the zoom shot before CGI exist

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@realryanwhorton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The internet is going to turn me against practical effects in movies I swear to god. Its getting to the point that where every single compliment of CGI sounds back handed. There's no unequivocal praise of it like there is with practical effects. And directors constantly point out when effects

This is so true

🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸@thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've reached the point where when people are complaining about "modern films" and "how much better films used to be," they're now referring to the 2010s which is hilarious as someone who remembers people saying this shit back then. 😂

The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995) was on my top 5 all time favorite movies back then. Now it's just gone. I don't own it on anything but VHS and I haven't heard anyone but myself talk about it for over 25 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-F3...

The City of Lost Children (1995) Trailer | Ron Perlman | Daniel Emilfork

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The dangers of space, ranked by danger 1) going up into space 2) coming down from space 3) being in space

How did media literacy reach a low where any sight of any set is seen as "OMG REAAL SEEETS PRACTICAL FILMMAKING IS SO BACK". They never. Stopped. Buildings sets.

From 2018: "Every once in a while, Twitter is great. Like the time a bunch of film directors dunked hard on an ignorant VFX take."

Project Hail Mary used ZERO CGI for the glasses hanging from Ryan Gosling's ears and Sandra Hüller singing Karaoke, opting instead to rely on practical effects

Having just watched Project Hail Mary (which is 100% perfect and amazing) I need more awesome sciency space stuff, so re-watching Ad Astra. It's phenomenally stupid, and endlessly awesome and fascinating. Every set piece is a masterpiece.

Tars was built as a fantastic on-set puppet. AND, was 100% CGI in shots like this. Things are rarely one technique only. A practical effect on set does not mean "no CGI".

VFX breakdown rules are weird. MI7 pushed “practical” but released CGI breakdowns to get VFX Oscar and got nominated. MI8 had similar CGI but hid it to keep the “practical” angle and got ignored. Predator Badlands released breakdowns, but couldn’t show talent - so Elle Fanning is blurred.

The directors of Project Hail Mary giving credit to Framestore, animation supervisor Arslan Elver and the team of 70 CG artists for giving personality to CG animated Rocky www.linkedin.com/posts/frames... #ProjectHailMary

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In Project Hail Mary, the line between puppet and CG is seamless. And as Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller put it, Rocky’s personality came from Arslan Elver and our animation team. While the worl...

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Tired of bad CGI? Let's look at the good stuff! Here are 4 tips from the VFX department about how to make good CGI. #1: Shoot as much as possible for real

Tired of bad CGI? Let's look at the good stuff! Here are 4 tips from the VFX department about how to make good CGI. #1: Shoot as much as possible for real

"I'm doing my part!"

the piece is worse than the headline and deeply misleads TO BE CLEAR: - in half the shots in which he appears, Rocky is computer graphics animation - Project Hail Mary used LED screens - Top Gun Maverick had all-CG jet sequences, the Dune films had all-CG sequences, Alien Romulus had all-CG aliens

The discourse is still so bad. It's one thing when internet bozo film bros spread misinformation, but when the trades just say stupid stuff like this it's just so overwhelming and depressing. Fun fact: even those movies that you think "rely on 'CGI'" have gigantic practical effects work!

Don't jump onto the "wow Hail Mary didn't use a lot of CGI". It's a lovely mix of great practical and CGI, and HALF of Rocky's performance is CGI, and the CGI interiors just used roto and greyscreens instead of greenscreens.

This is what "practical puppet" and "no green screen" means

Hot take, electing the 0.00001% who wants to throw explosives on houses so people die when 99.99999% of earth's population just want to sit in their houses and not die is maybe long-term not ideal