by jellydonut25 » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:15 am
I'm good with things evolving, but when I see stuff like this I cringe at how bad some of the effects are. I think the best method would be CGI for the kaiju while miniatures are practical, and maybe just occasionally enhanced with CGI.
The animation on the CGI buildings at the end of that trailer, for example, is LAUGHABLY bad.
I can get past some dodgy CGI on a kaiju, because I have no frame of reference in reality for how a kaiju moves. But when I see a kaiju smash a building, and the whole top half flies off like the thing was made of Legos, when it should crumble where struck, or the way those buildings at the beginning of the "10 Years Later" part move, my brain goes into "This is bull**** mode" and the whole thing (even the stuff I might otherwise forgive) becomes victim to my harsh inner critic.
I watch a movie like Fury Road and think "That's CGI done RIGHT." and I know NO Japanese kaiju movie is ever gonna have a $200+ million dollar budget, but the APPROACH to CGI taken by Fury Road was absolutely brilliant, and is what ALL movies should do (looking at you, Jurassic World; much as I enjoyed you, you had a buttload of shaky CGI, used at times when something practical would have worked WAY better).