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The Human Characters Look Like Plastic Marionette Freaks

posted 4 months ago by chumbawampa (848)
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Human characters in fully CGI animated movies always look like plastic talking mannequins.

They should focus on animal characters, aliens, or other creatures with CGI, but whenever they put humans into a CGI animated film , it never looks good.

It's the same with every Pixar movie, Beowulf, Polar Express, Christmas Carol, FF: Spirits Within, the list goes on...

That's why Toy Story worked so well: The plasticy look of the CGI fit perfectly for action figures and plastic toys, and they kept the human characters to a minimum. Because we all know how horrific Andy and Sid looked.

And this movie, it's the same thing: The humans are freakist, bug-eyed, plastic-skinned, googly-eyed deformed monstrosities. CGI does not work well recreating human characters. Don't forget those... 'attempts' to re-create a young Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil.

[–] VectorOfTheMoon (200) 25 days ago

To quote you...

"Human characters in fully CGI animated movies always look like plastic talking mannequins"

Generally speaking, yep. I'm no animator, but I'm guessing humans are some of the hardest things to animate. Especially because you have to create realistic proportions and make then look actually human. Even one wrong mistake and they'll just look very off. With other animated characters such as aliens, monsters, or anthropomorphic wolves (such as Death from Puss in Boots 2), its way more lenient if you go off model. Since no one expects realistic proportions from those characters. And going off model for characters like that adds to the otherworldly-ness.

[–] chumbawampa (848) 23 days ago

I absolutely agree that CGI works better on non-human characters. But when you combine non-human cgi characters with fake human cgi people... All it does is draw attention to how unrealistic the human characters look, with giant bug-sized eyes etc. But its alot cheaper than trying to combine CGI with real effects so they will keep doing it because using animatronics and actually doing it right would be way too expensive (and there probably isn't an industry for that anymore).