Comments on: AVGN Movie Q&A – PAX (Seattle WA, August 30th, 2014) https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Orionsangel https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-164338 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:50:06 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-164338 In reply to Satnav.

That’s awesome. I hope we see more practical effects in modern movies.

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By: Ether Thief https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-164026 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:37:58 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-164026 The movie is such a mixed bag. Half is great, and half is awful. Who the hell thought Cooper was a good idea?

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By: Satnav https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163861 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:27:30 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163861 In reply to Orionsangel.

You’d be surprised what effects aren’t CG these days. You remember that truck flipping scene in the Dark Knight? They actually flipped that truck for real. Pretty awesome.

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By: tabu https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163854 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:59:53 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163854 In reply to Devil_Rising.

I agree with soccer, i like a lot avgn series, but doesent that mean im a blind fanboy.

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By: colt https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163814 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:19:50 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163814 In reply to Devil_Rising.

Soccer,

Seems like most here can’t take constructive criticism!

Thanks for you honest opinion on the movie!

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By: Orionsangel https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163777 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:48:24 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163777 As a person who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s with practical effects in movies. Here’s my take on CG and why it bothers me. A CG artist can create anything, whether it looks real or not, CG makes anything possible in movies. When the process of creating a CG effect begins. The CG artists working on the CG effect, don’t ask themselves whether it can be done. They know it can be done. The only question is, how are they gonna tackle the CG effect? What approach are they gonna take on CG effect scene.
In the days of practical effects a special effects artist didn’t even know if he could create the effect. I think it’s that aspect of practical effects that brought out the best in these practical effects artist. It fuels their creative juices. It makes them work that much harder.

Haven’t you ever noticed that the CG T-REX in Jurassic Park still holds up. It’s at times slow and lumbering animal in the rain at night. The audience gets to take it all in and the thing had weight distribution for godsakes! This CG effect looks that way for the same reason as I mentioned earlier about practical effects. It’s that unknown of whether you can do it or not that brings out the best in an artist. They were entering new territory. It was ambitious!

CG started as a new and exciting frontier for special effects, but over the years it’s lost it’s way. I’m not saying today’s CG isn’t hard work, but for many CG studios. It’s become like a well oiled machine that’s always there to make anything possible and many studios abuse that power. There’s a lack of movie magic when it comes to CG. At least for many in my generation. I’m sure for little kids today CG is movie magic, but when I was growing up, kids and adults alike had no idea how many of the practical effects in movies were even created. We sort of had an idea, but almost every new movie had that moment of – WOW! How did they do that? Today that’s practically nonexistent. We just look at it and say, oh it’s just CG again. Bg deal.

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By: SoccerMomBanger https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163727 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:24:47 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163727 In reply to Devil_Rising.

Not trolling, I’m being dead honest fuck head.

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By: Willson fire https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163675 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:42:20 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163675 James, Mike and everybody who want or are making videos you should try SONY VEGAS PRO with New Blue FX plugins, it’s awesome ! hundreds of great tools, quite easly to learn, more than Adobe Premiere and also a big update is available every year. Go http://www.newbluefx.com/products to have great software plugins for your editing software, they got special effects visuals, transitions, titling, color correction… softwares , it’s available also for FINAL CUT, check it out !!!

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By: Devil_Rising https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163657 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:45:42 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163657 In reply to SoccerMomBanger.

It’s nice to see trolling is alive and well on the internet.

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By: Jay_Ganthor https://cinemassacre.com/2014/09/21/pax-qa/#comment-163655 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:48:22 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=28597#comment-163655 A lot of people don’t realize that even movies that use heavy CGI also use a lot of practical effects. For example, The Phantom Menace used many more practical effects than people give it credit for.

As far as longevity, some movies age better than others, like Jurassic Park or Forrest Gump. The bottom line is, there has to be a reason for CGI, and most films use it as a means to and end, or a cheaper alternative.

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