In recent years there has been an uprising of Computer Generated Images (CGI) in films. This is especially apparent in places where before, there would have been real stunts, sets, enviroments or prostheticks. Instead there are now greenscreens, large green blocks, greensuits, green bodypaint or green dots. Tired of the word green? I sure am, nearly everyting in the Hobbit was greenscreened. The freaking Hobbit, the follow-up to the greatest user of mixed real sets with a little CGI in it. It is extremely frustrating to see great film-makers resort to special effects in places where there really isnt a need to, especially when those same people have previously made much greater work without or with very little computers, (I'm looking at you, Lucas!!)
Things have become better in the laest few years in the real effects department, and CGI is only used when absolutely nessecary, We have gone back to the nineties in our usage of effects, for instance, most of the T1000's exposed metal was actually prosteticks and make-up. But we still have a long way to go in using CGI at its best, hopefully we can someday have a whole year with only the minimum amount of computers used for effects.
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