Jiji Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Stephen Amell reminds me way too much of Chris O'Donnell. That's very much not a good thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Is CGI getting worse? It seems like a lot of recent films have terrible CGI.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 CGI is *really* fucking expensive, for the hardware setup needed to do the animation and redering, to the manpower hours needed to have the people do the animations, match everything up where its supposed to line up in the raw video, than do whatever when they hit "render" and wait for hours to see if they got it right and have to redo it again if they screwed something up. So I would say, CGI isn't so much getting worse, as some effects houses are cutting costs, which means corners, which means scaling back on the quality and not as many re-renders to correct mistakes or clean up things better. And people realizing again that practical effects actually look better/are cheaper and start using a mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I had thought CGI was cheaper than practical and less tie consuming and is why they end up going with CGI but I don't know, all I know is I prefer more practical effects than anything and Mad Max proves that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Dependant on the shot. If you're doing miniatures, they yeah, because the model makers are fewer and more expensive. You filling a dude with bullets, squibs, fake blood, and prop guns are cheaper than paying a bunch of guys to sit infront of a CGI farm to render everything. Also, like any art, it's as good as the people doing it. It being done by shitty artists, its gonna look shit, and there are a fucking TON of art schools churning out people that think they're on par with the graphics designers of Jurassic Park (the single best CGI movie, IMO), when they're just above Home Movies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 A lot of the "shitty CG" you see these days is really just poorly composited, so it's more jarring to your eye and registers as "not real" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Sherman Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 this is what i'm working at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Apparently David Tennant is voicing Prof. Honeycutt/Fugitoid on the current Nick cartoon. I really need to revisit that show; I was decidedly unimpressed with the first season, but it sounds like they've been working hard to mash up the Mirage originals, the 80s cartoon and the Archie comics. When someone told me they were doing the arc that became the first movie (Shredder takes over NYC, Splinter nearly dies, the Turtles and Casey flee the city and come back for a showdown) I was legit surprised. I don't know if it can ever usurp the 4kids as my favorite iteration of the concept, but I need to give it a fairer shake than I did when it was new. (Jeffrey Combs as Rat King, though, that's perfect casting.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 The show has generally been good fun though yeah, probably not as good as the 4kids show got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 About 2 years back I watched about half of the 2003 series and was surprised at how good it was about putting together the original comic storylines while adding to it. This reminds me I should go back and finish watching it sometime. I haven't seen any of the current Nick series. Is it back to being geared towards a younger audience? I've found the first cartoon series has aged really poorly. Here's what facebook says is a new trailer- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 1 hour ago, HumanChessgame said: About 2 years back I watched about half of the 2003 series and was surprised at how good it was about putting together the original comic storylines while adding to it. This reminds me I should go back and finish watching it sometime. I haven't seen any of the current Nick series. Is it back to being geared towards a younger audience? I've found the first cartoon series has aged really poorly. The Nick series falls somewhere between the two. Its for a younger audience, but there is still actual plot and movement within the characters' stories. You also get the occasional homages like an episode where they clearly fought Lo-Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 11, 2016 Author Share Posted April 11, 2016 I can't believe I'm going to say this... I hope the Neutrinos are in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Sherman Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 i worked on one shot in that new trailer. i think i finished my last shot on monday. just waiting on word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligerbusa Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Teasing the turtles as humans is so lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The Nickelodeon series is pretty good. It's got a nice longform ongoing storyline and season long arcs. Sometimes the explanations and resolutions are a little contrived, but the show is very good at world building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 On 4/13/2016 at 2:31 PM, Ligerbusa said: Teasing the turtles as humans is so lame. If they started as humans it would be one thing, but they started as just regular baby turtles. Even Splinter in this show was never a human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 So Paramount announced that Brad Garrett is now voicing Krang not Fred Armisen as originally announced. I would joke "good thing they two weeks before the movie comes out" but I am sure this switch was made awhile ago and they are just announcing it now. Right... right... RIGHT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Eh, I mean you can knock out the voice acting for what I assume is a, at best, medium sized part in a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 4 hours ago, RIPPA said: So Paramount announced that Brad Garrett is now voicing Krang not Fred Armisen as originally announced. I would joke "good thing they two weeks before the movie comes out" but I am sure this switch was made awhile ago and they are just announcing it now. Right... right... RIGHT? I refer you to this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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J.T. Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Krang is spot on and Shredder looks awesome. Why are these movies so shitty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 I watched the first one and there was something about it that I really liked and something else about it that I hated. I honestly can't remember...Maybe it was that any time the turtles were with Will Arnett, the movie worked? Fuck, I don't want to watch that fucking thing again, but there were definitely times where I thought the movie was ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Yeah. The first one fell under Michael Bay Transformers rules for me: I enjoyed it a lot as a dumb spectacle on first watch and can now never watch it again because it will be awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 This movie is pretty close to a miracle. The plot makes zero sense, it is a garbage script. But they make the most of it, and it's pretty fun viewing in all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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