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Not full CGI, but the work they do on Voldemort's face is pretty impressive...

EDIT: By the way, I didn't know Davey Jones was entirely CGI, that's pretty crazy.

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Wouldn't Gollum lose points for changing appearance from Fellowship to the Two Towers?

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In terms of what? Mechanical Autobots and Decepticons? I have a hard time giving that type of character animation the props it probably deserves because it's not life-like. There's nothing to compare it to, whereas photorealism of skin and/or fur compared to real things is IMO harder to replicate.

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There both different. Optimus Prime is composed of 10,108 different moving pieces. You can't tell me that that wouldn't be tough to animate. Also, the way the light reflects off robot's is very difficult because the robot's are pretty much big reflective surfaces. Plus, your right, it's not organic. That makes it even harder because ILM has to try to create facial expresses that make us feel as if this shiny metal robot has a soul. King Kong was incredible, so was Gollum. But honestly I think Optimus Prime would be even harder to animate then those characters. Davy Jones is another story........

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The chase on the freeway in Transformers was pretty damn good CGI, and I hate CGI.

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Why?

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It's generally overused.

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The baby in The Hangover was a pretty good CGI character.

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I don't know if it's just because I'm exhausted but I nearly pissed myself when I scrolled down and got the David Schwimmer picture. Can't stop laughing.

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Oh man, the scoprion king had to be one of the worst.


Were Nute Gunray and the monsters from Pitch Black CGI?

I agree about the velociraptors, king kong, davy jones, gollum, etc. Not sure what else to name.

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Nute Gunray was a guy in a suit and puppet head. The monsters from Pitch Black were CGI.

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Nothing really comes close to Davy Jones. Most people never even knew he was CG - still don't. Gollum was great too - most of the time.

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I know that Davy Jones is CG *NOW*, I didn't before I saw the behind the scenes creation. I know Bill Nighy was motion captured for the role, but he was all CG covered.

I actually got to see a trade show video that ILM does to show off what they can do, plus a guy who worked on the animation script//math/algorithms/whatever for the tentacles on DAvy Jones' face.

Lots of "Indiana Jones", "Iron Man", and "Pirates" in that trade video, but not a single mention or showing of David Schwimmer. Puzzling.

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King Kong
Oliver Reed in Gladiator (hey, I couldn't tell)
Gollum
T-1000
Godzilla '98 (the movie may have sucked, but he looked pretty damn cool for a big iguana)