io9.gizmodo.com: Before you go on a rant about the over-use of visual effects ruining the film and TV industries, watch this behind-the-scenes breakdown of HBO’s Big Little Lies. Computer graphics and digital compositing have actually become so prevalent as a filmmaking tool that your eyes probably don’t realize they’re being fooled 90 percent of the time.
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There is so much more CGI in this show. Most of it is just environmental edits like balancing of color or adding in reflections that would have been impossible to film through, and then there’s the obvious stuff of car crashes and falls off cliffs, which I though was a little funny that they added in considering the article is about CG that you don’t notice. But they were highlighting the process more than just the small things. I was really confused as to why they felt the need to CGI in a bruise in one of the short clips rather than just use makeup to put it on. Especially since it’s such a small part of her elbow and clearly she is covering it up so they knew they wanted it when they filmed the scene. I can see them using CGI for it if the bruise makeup was really insets or they didn’t want to get makeup on the white sweater, but that seems like a whole lot of effort on the computer when it could’ve been a ten minute makeup job.
I was surprised how many visual effects are in most TV shows. The ability to change the lighting, coloring, and to create new looks is phenomenal. I never would have noticed those changes. Due to cost and weather, it is easy to understand why TV shows would chose this method as opposed to on location shoots. While it's amazing how they can build looks without the actors, I wonder if removes some of the actors choices in regards to their character. Since someone else is creating the moment, the actors choices are further away from the end result. However, since we rarely notice that the footage has been changed, it would not appear to be a problem. Overall, this video is very informative and it's amazing to see the parts that go into editing a TV show. I hope that more shows release moments like this so that we can see what goes into the creation of TV Shows.
Wow! This article left me feeling much more surprised than I thought I would be, and it makes me want to go back and watch TV shows and see if I can guess where the CGI technology was used in them. The visuals of this article were really cool, and definitely helped me understand how CGI can really enhance the filmed shots of a production. I also had a similar reaction as Rebecca about how the use of technology like this and phasing out of "shooting on location" might change the way actors are working today and how they will start to work in the future. As someone who sincerely cannot imagine how I would perform well in front of tons of cameras, it seems like the lack of real-world environment might trip me up even more. In general, I thought that this article was easily understood and really informative, and I am excited to see how CGI will continue to change and play a large role in the film industry in years to come.
Visual effects are one of those things where you can assume that they are used in pretty much everything, like a standard. However, I never realized how much they use them and to the level that they do. I assumed every production had some sort of visual effects to them but I only thought they used it as a touch up tool or to edit something because they didn’t see it when they were filming. I never would have thought that they recreated whole environments out of visual effects, especially when they can go to that place. I see the benefits of not going somewhere: huge cost moving people, equipment, and other necessary things; the weather is unpredictable in terms of actual shooting of shots and scenes; and the whole deal of permits for locations. However, I always thought that shooting somewhere made for a better end result, but that doesn’t seem entirely accurate. I couldn’t catch the effects as they showed us but then again, I didn’t have the time to notice anything either. I would like to think that the location is better but I’m not entirely sure any more and that just goes to show how amazing and how far special effects has come.
This was such an extraordinary show, and I had no idea that the show contains so many visual effects. Sometimes the best visual effects are the ones that you were not expecting to see. In science-fiction and fantasy we expect to see visual effects, so we are more likely to look for them. However in this show set in modern day California with no fantasy or science fiction elements, the director has the ability to use CGI to enhance the production, without the audience expecting that he is. I am glad that this video was made so that people could see the incredibly hard work that the special-effects supervisor and the artists and animators put into making this possible. Hopefully there will be more videos like this that showcase unsuspecting CGI in movies and shows that you wouldn’t expect to have. This is a testament to the artists who worked on the show. Hopefully other artists and CGI animators will be able to showcase their work in some more videos along this line.
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