[ChiperSoft]

This analogy has layers that OP probably doesn't recognize.

The film industry loves cgi because none of the digital vfx houses are unionized and they can treat the artists like crap. It severely devalued a ton of skilled labor around miniature and set design.

Now, after 20 years of hard swing into cgi, people are starting to recognize just how much better movies from the practical era looked, and there is a push back towards it. Project Hail Mary was predominantly practical effects, for example. Stop motion animation is coming back, and theres a push back into hand cell animation.

[troupo]

While many of the things tou say are true, movies like PHM and other "predominantly practical" movies have so many effects that they put Marvel to shame.

I highly recommend the 4-part essay series "'No CGI' is just invisible CGI" https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgdTaHO8FLEve_XFiRBEcOSkR...

[atombender]

> Project Hail Mary was predominantly practical effects

Don't drink the Kool Aid. The studios love to make this sort of claim — recent examples include F1: The Movie, Top Gun: Maverick, and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, and you'll see interviews where the main actors say it was all real — but it's just marketing.

Project Hail Mary leans heavily on CG. For example, while they did hire a puppeteer (he ended up voicing the alien!) to control a neat physical puppet on set, almost all of it was replaced with CG in post production, and only used for reference. Corridor Crew has a great breakdown [1]. They frequently provide a good counterpoint against fraudulent "no CG" claims.

[1] https://youtu.be/l9zqIo8KtjI?is=e7-3Wz_mnMdl2Yp8

[nunez]

The end credits to PHM had A LOT of people credited for graphics!

[majormajor]

You can have the most everyday-setting movie or TV show imaginable and still have it VFX'd to hell and back compared to something shot on film 30 years ago. Not even just like Ted Lasso faking the stadiums/fields they were on, but just retouching every single little thing.

[troupo]

Basically anything you see out of a window, anything in the street more than a few meters away from a camera, almost any overhead shot, any wide shot, any panorama or landscape, blood, liquids, glass, any semblance of stunt work, most signs, boats, any action on water, flight... is vfx

[wodenokoto]

Corridor crew just did a video on this animatronic controller, which they adored, both concept and lore.

They recreated one and had one of the stop motion guys from Jurassic park and another animator come visit and test it.

Their conclusion was that animating in blender with your mouse is still better, even though it was enjoyable to use the animatronic controller.

Their concept for the video was “look at this better way to animate that time forgot” and ended up concluding that “actually it isn’t better”