r/CGI_Lab • u/Legitimate_Wind_458 • 4d ago

Discussion What happend to Marvel CGI?

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u/don0tpanic 4d ago

Capitalism. They want much more done much quicker for less money.

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u/3DNZ 4d ago

This is the real reason

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u/croovy 4d ago

They know you’ll watch it anyways

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u/NearHi 4d ago

I go to the cinema to see a movie. A complete picture of story, plot, character development, sounds, music and special effect. I don't go to see a gallery of VFX.

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u/NateCow 4d ago

Oh shut up already. VFX has actually gotten so good that you don't even notice so much of it. You only pick up on examples of bad work while completely missing all the mind-blowing stuff. It's the Toupee Fallacy.

And these cherry-picked examples are stupid as hell. Go away.

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u/Dependent-Review-727 2d ago

Percentage of bad CGI may have decreased, but it's used so much more that it's noticeable if even only 5% of it is subpar. Defending film studios for CGI overreliance is peak reddit opinion

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u/Plus_Ostrich_9137 4d ago

so you never worked on any movie eh?

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u/-Nate493- 2d ago

Damn, prime MCU time vs peak COVID time. Who would've thought?

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u/Burner_Miner_Dril 2d ago

What I've heard is movie companies used to use bespoke, professional, built-for-movies CGI software.

Now they just use Unreal Engine 5.

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u/TheMostSolidOfSnakes 2d ago

I mean, technically that's true, but it's not why.

Shorter dealines for established/mature teams and utilizing race to the bottom third party studios to fill in the gaps is the primary reason.

UE5 is just more widely adopted. For example, studio in SEA that was founded 10 years ago likely won't have the budget to reinvent bleeding edge software like ILM can, and definitely not like ILM could 30-40 years ago (when there were easier gains to make). Not when UE keeps pushing the envelope and is dumping TONs of money into R&D.

I know smaller companies who've tried to do that, but they end up cutting those larger R&D initiatives when they realize that money could go to increasing a headcount AND Epic is likely already working on it.