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"I hate CGI video" "So you hated the TV Series Ugly Betty then?" "What? that's not CGI!" This video is 15 years old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjorAhc

"I hate CGI video" "So you hated the TV Series Ugly Betty then?" "What? that's not CGI!" This video is 15 years old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjorAhcnbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjorAhcnbY

wormpilled 7mo ago
I think that's a different category, though. Those backgrounds are actual video recordings of real places, not 3D environments modeled from scratch. It looks 'real' because the background actually exists.
- theshrike79 7mo ago
  It's still 100% CGI compositing and definitely not all of them are real places or real objects. In that specific 15 year old example they're mostly composited, you're right about that.
  - DonHopkins 7mo ago
    I love Ian Hubert's demos of green screening in Blender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxD6H3ri8RI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxD6H3ri8RI His Blender Conference talk about photogrammetry / camera projection / projection mapping was fantastic: World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM
- delaminator 7mo ago
  Computer Generated Imagery.
runarberg 7mo ago
Your case would have been better if you had used Mad Max: Fury Road, or even Titanic as examples, rather then a mediocre TV show nobody remembers. Ugly Betty used green screens to make production cheaper, that did not improve the show (although it may have improved the profit margins). Mad Max: Fury Road on the other hand used CGI to significantly improve the visual experience. The added CGI probably increased the cost of the production, and subsequently it is one of the greatest, most awesome, movie ever made. Actually if you look at the scene from Greys Anatomy [0:54] you can see where CGI is used to improve the scene (rather then cut costs), and you get this amazing scene of the Washington State Ferry crash. I think you can see the parallels here. When people say they hate AI they are generally referring to the sloppy stuff it generates. It has enabled a proliferation of cheap slop. And with few exception it seems like generating cheap slop is all it does (these exception being specialized tools e.g. in image processing software).
- delaminator 7mo ago
  > mediocre TV show Won 3 Primetime Emmys 52 wins & 124 nominations total https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805669/awards/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805669/awards/ I guess it's just too lowbrow for you.
  - runarberg 7mo ago
    Award winning shows and movies does not exclude forgettable cash grabs. However, my counter examples included Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Max, and Titanic. None of these are considered high literature exactly (and all of them are award winning as well).

wormpilled 7mo ago

I think that's a different category, though. Those backgrounds are actual video recordings of real places, not 3D environments modeled from scratch. It looks 'real' because the background actually exists.

theshrike79 7mo ago
It's still 100% CGI compositing and definitely not all of them are real places or real objects. In that specific 15 year old example they're mostly composited, you're right about that.
- DonHopkins 7mo ago
  I love Ian Hubert's demos of green screening in Blender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxD6H3ri8RI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxD6H3ri8RI His Blender Conference talk about photogrammetry / camera projection / projection mapping was fantastic: World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM
delaminator 7mo ago
Computer Generated Imagery.

runarberg 7mo ago

Your case would have been better if you had used Mad Max: Fury Road, or even Titanic as examples, rather then a mediocre TV show nobody remembers. Ugly Betty used green screens to make production cheaper, that did not improve the show (although it may have improved the profit margins). Mad Max: Fury Road on the other hand used CGI to significantly improve the visual experience. The added CGI probably increased the cost of the production, and subsequently it is one of the greatest, most awesome, movie ever made. Actually if you look at the scene from Greys Anatomy [0:54] you can see where CGI is used to improve the scene (rather then cut costs), and you get this amazing scene of the Washington State Ferry crash. I think you can see the parallels here. When people say they hate AI they are generally referring to the sloppy stuff it generates. It has enabled a proliferation of cheap slop. And with few exception it seems like generating cheap slop is all it does (these exception being specialized tools e.g. in image processing software).

delaminator 7mo ago
> mediocre TV show Won 3 Primetime Emmys 52 wins & 124 nominations total https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805669/awards/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805669/awards/ I guess it's just too lowbrow for you.
- runarberg 7mo ago
  Award winning shows and movies does not exclude forgettable cash grabs. However, my counter examples included Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Max, and Titanic. None of these are considered high literature exactly (and all of them are award winning as well).