Practical effects or CGI?

It shouldn't matter because a movie shouldn't rely on effects but rather strong writing.

It should rely on strong every single filmmaking element.
You can have the "strongest" writing in the industry, but it all goes to shit if the performance is utter shit for example.

Depends on what you're trying to do
for certain movies starting with CGI as a base actually works.
Avatar is a fantastic example of this, it's environments simply could not be achieved through practical effects.

Real. You can see the guy standing beneath the table and the fabric sheet used for the screen shakes a little.

isnt it obvious?

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The only correct answer is "whatever works"

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Did they use actual armies?

Practical effects with CGI touchup

No its tiny models put on sticks that people behind the model hill move to imitate a real army.

are you having a stroke user?
should I call 911?

practical and cgi combined is best

Well no shit u should use CGI for a fucking virtual billboard.

Practical with cgi to fix it up😃

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CGI never works.

But it looks so real

haha imagine putting your dick upto to the screen, wouldn't that be weird lol

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practical.

we disagree

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good taste

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>spread butt cheeks
>put was right up to screen
>tell the actor inside to go

it was a different time

That looks nothing like Princess Leia tho. Terrible example

That and Akira Kurosawa was a perfectionist iirc

goddamn it HOW

what movie is this plz

reverse gives no answer

So was it ever figured out how they shot this scene?

Ran

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here's some whatever numale fag explaining it
youtube.com/watch?v=Ec1zr7xVNes

Just composited two or three shots together, nothing special

For distinct particle effects or objects that are far from the scene's focus, such as background elements, CG is okay. It is very easy to go too far with CG. Hollywood fails to grasp this fact, as demonstrated with modern Marvel schlock where you have RDJ's head pasted onto a poorly rendered Iron Man suit. Sometimes too much CG can even be passable. The first Harry Potter movie for example was filled with bad CG, but the overall movie was extremely well directed with an awesome score and was satisfying to watch.

There is a finesse to it. The problem is CG is usually taken as the easy way out to cut the budget, which means finesse is not Hollywood's focus when using CG.

Practical. Was watching The Thing again last night. Some scenes the props do look a little plastic like, but even then they seem more realistic than CGI

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i thought you where jokeing but then i se it really cool actualy

They have used actual armies for movies in the past the old spartacus movie used the italian army as ekstras and the maximum kino waterloo movie used the soviet army