Top Five CGI Characters
 

List your favorite CGI characters in terms of quality and reality of the CGI, not which one's you thought were better characters. I start this thread with Avatar in mind. My list may change after I see that film.

1) Davy Jones- ILM (Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3)
2) Devastator- ILM (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
3) King Kong- WETA (Peter Jackson's King Kong)
4) Gollum- WETA (Lord of the Rings)
5) Yoda- ILM (Star Wars II and III)

Your turn..........

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1 - Gollum
2 - T-1000
3 - T-Rex Jurassic Park
4 - King Kong
5 - General Grievous/ Davy Jones (tie)

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1. Gollum
2. King Kong
3. Davy Jones
4. Velociraptors
5. T-1000

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Really? I thought Davy Jone's CGI was a lot more realistic then Gollum.......

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1) T-Rex (Jurassic Park)
2) Gollum (LOTR)
3) Balrog (LOTR)
4) King Kong (Peter Jackon's remake)
5) The Kothoga (The Relic)

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Actually you're right. I missed the first sentence in your post about solely ranking based on realistic CGI. I was going by characters.

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are there even a lot of them to choose from as of now?

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I can only think of two:

The Faun (Pan's Labyrinth)
The Arachnids (Starship Troopers)

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Some pics of characters listed.
Davy Jones
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screen...007&position=2
King Kong
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/screen...731&position=5

http://www.empireonline.com/images/f...eakdown/19.jpg

http://sammyray.com/wp-content/image.../01/gollum.jpg

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/u...03/general.jpg

http://media.decider.com/assets/imag...pscale_q85.jpg

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The Faun wasn't CGI at all.

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1.) Davy Jones (POTC 2 and 3)
2.) King Kong (King Kong 2005)
3.) Gollum (LotR 2 and 3)
4.) General Grievous (SW Ep. III)
5.) MCP (Tron)

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Davy Jones, King Kong, Gollum, Optimus Prime, Tooth Fairies (Hellboy II).

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I couldnt list them but my top 5 would be ones that I didnt even notice were CGI.
That to me is a truly great indication of quality in CGI. Not even noticing it.

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What, no love for this guy?

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Good lord, Devastator? That was nothing but a big background straight out of a video game.

1. JP T-rex
2. Cloverfield Monster
3. Gollum
4. King Kong
5. JP Velociraptor

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:up:

I was convinced that at least one of these troopers was a real guy in a suit.
http://www.studiocreations.com/howto...lkingsmoke.jpg

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Great point, I still continue to forget they were CGI. It doesn't help though that I have seen the costume they built for a reference model in person though.

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5. Jabba in '97 Star Wars SE
4. Scorpion King in Mummy Returns
3. The flying vampire girls in Van Helsing.
2. The Shark from Shark Attack 3: Megalodon.
1. Moving guys in Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" video.

Honorable Mention:
All of the creatures in A Sound of Thunder

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1. Davy Jones (POTC)
2. Draco (Dragonheart)
3. Bit (Tron)
4. Gollum (LOTR)
5. King Kong (PJR)


http://www.dragons.dk/Grafik/Picture...onheart005.jpg

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:lol: Well played.

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Good call on Dragonheart. Very impressive for 1996.

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Davy Jones did that for me. I thought only his face was CG but it turns out everything was.

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It really did blow me away back then. Terrible picture I posted though, that talon looks very out of place.

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The only thing they did digital to the faun was to erase Doug Jone's legs in that bright green fabric. EVERYTHING on the faun itself though is a physical part of the suit..even the legs...look at the special features on the faun..great stuff. Del Toro is really original with thinking of the simplest things where others would totally go complex.

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None.

(okay...maybe the T-Rex from Jurassic Park)

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The usual:
King Kong
Gollum
Davy Jones
Cloverfield
Starship Troopers.

I have to say, Jurassic Park's T-Rex and the T-1000 from T2 are over-rated (hate that word, but it actually fits here). The T-Rex is an animatronic puppet for most of its appearance and when it is CGI, it is in the dark or rain and very brief. The T-1000 is barely a CGI creation at all. Most of the effects are practical effects and they just morph between them. That is, they had actual chromed puppets in various poses and stages of transformation that were physically present on the set and when there was some kind of transformation, like pouring into the helicopter or being shot to hell with the guns, they just morphed between models. Unlike most CGI creations that are entirely CGI, like King Kong or Gollum, the T-1000 and the T-Rex barely even count as CGI characters.

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I think you have it backwards. It's in very clear daylight when it attacked the Gallimimuses and during the ending money shot at the visitor center. It's the animatronic that's actually in the dark shots and rain.

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Jar-Jar Binks!

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1. King Kong
2. Gollum
3. Davy Jones
4. T-Rex
5. The Witch King's flying steed in LOTR: ROTK

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That stupid purple monkey from LOST IN SPACE or David Schwimmer

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More pics of some listed.

Cloverfield Monster
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/u...eldmonster.jpg

Optimus Prime
http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-conten...imus-prime.jpg

David Schwimmer
http://pop.ology.com/files/2008/10/0...wimmer_004.jpg

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The T-800 character in Terminator Salvation. Not necessary my favorite from a character stand point (can't touch the original) but the life like recreation of an 80's Arnold is impressive and downright scary.

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It boggles the mind how many people think David Schwimmer is a live-action actor. -ohbfrank-

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I'm pretty sure that ILM did that one.

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ILM created David Schwimmer? I have a new appreciation for their technical skills.

The realism they achieved, even back in 1994...

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I give honorable mention to:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7...nalfastasy.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5056/beowulfl.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8315/plio.jpg

I can discount what I feel is not life-like (ie. Transformers). Or else I would have to credit Titanic and Apollo 13 as realistic.

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Really? Transformers has some of the best CGI out there.

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best use of CGI in the history of the medium...

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Probably not considered a character, but the ship from Flight of the Navigator was amazing for its time.

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Damn, someone beat me to Joan Rivers....

Anyways, I'm real impressed with stuff from over 10 years ago that still looks amazing and can compare to things of today. That's why the dinosaurs, specifically the T-Rex, from Jurassic Park is just amazing to me.