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Final scene with young Will Smith CGI

posted 5 years ago by Threadkiller (3089)
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While the script was largely forgettable (Not a great film but hardly as bad as critics would have you believe) I found Will Smith to be very watchable throughout. Mary Elizabeth Weinsted was also solid in her supporting role & the action scenes were alright.

That being said I thought the young Will Smith CGI looked mostly pretty good for most of the movie until the very end. Did they run out of budget or something? I don't know why they decided to end the movie with the most distractingly mediocre shots of CGI facial animation throughout the whole film.

[–] JepGambardella (499) 5 years ago

I agree, the difference in quality was very noticeable in that final scene. Strange.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Interesting. Usually the final scene is the most crucial / impactful part of a movie so some directors may shoot it early before they have any chance to encounter problems (main star getting injured, scheduling conflicts or running out of budget, etc.)

If that was the case, then it probably because the SFX team had not been perfected the tech used. Only after they worked for awhile that they would produce better output, which would become the earlier scenes in the final movie.

[–] Xcalat3 (3754) 5 years ago

Yep looks like they ran out of money for better CGI at the end.

[–] ronatola (398) 5 years ago

It's because that's the first time we see young Will smile, and it's had to CGI teeth.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

I haven't seen the movie but young Will Smith doesn't look like Will Smith to me, lol.

There's literally years of Fresh Prince footage to get images from so why didn't they copy that?

[–] FootOfDavros (8691) 4 years ago

Not true!

There were 148 episodes of Fresh Prince, apparently 22 mins each, but even if we generously make that 30 mins that's only 74hrs in total. That's just over three days worth of footage!

So no, there absolutely is not "literally years of Fresh Prince footage to get images from".

[–] Tyler1986 (236) 5 years ago

Agree completely, something was off in the final scene and it was noticeable.

[–] MovieElephant (349) 5 years ago

Could it be because it's bright daylight?

[–] wrlord (1225) 4 years ago

Bingo. He was uncanny valley throughout, but no one here seemed to notice.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Just watched on Prime. The first scene where his face is revealed had some dodgy CGI too... the eyes didn't track the same. They were slightly out of sync.

But, yeah, that end scene was especially bad. At one point, his jaw profile looked too large for his head.