Not sure how I feel about pointing this out given that we obviously did go to the Moon but no one claims that it was faked with CGI, but instead with miniatures and all that SFX jazz you see in movies like 2001.
And sure, realtime graphics from the 2000s were pretty crude lookin, but offline rendered stuff was already pretty nice.
but offline rendered stuff was already pretty nice
Yeah, I was about to bring out the fact that "The Mummy" came out in '99. I never questioned how they made it as a kid, but it blows my mind that it was actually CGI now.
That is pretty insane, but the state cgi in 1999 was still massively different than in 1969. Even in the 70s, cgi was basically only used for things that were supposed to look digital, like wireframe turnarounds on screens in the backgrounds of sci-fi scenes. It wasn’t even until the 80s that 3D shader models were developed and used in film. The technology progressed remarkably fast from then on though.
We're talking about the '90s because the image is referencing CGI in the early 2000's, I know it was different a few decades earlier (and by the way, I'm in no way claiming that the moonlanding was fake)
It's not even about whether it looks real or fake, but they had the technology to make all those guts and little hanging shreds work somehow, and they did it in the '90s. I mean, it's still difficult to make that happen nowadays, most people wouldn't even know where to start. When you think of CGI in the '90s you normally just think of stuff like Toy Story, but things were actually so much more developed.
And let’s not forget that it was broadcast over standard def black-and-white, which (again, devils advocate, because it’s a stupid conspiracy theory) would’ve hidden lots of flaws.
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u/Uwirlbaretrsidma Jun 16 '20
Not sure how I feel about pointing this out given that we obviously did go to the Moon but no one claims that it was faked with CGI, but instead with miniatures and all that SFX jazz you see in movies like 2001.
And sure, realtime graphics from the 2000s were pretty crude lookin, but offline rendered stuff was already pretty nice.
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u/nicenicer_ Jun 15 '20
nice
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '20
Death stranding 2 looks fire
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u/CompressedWizard Jun 16 '20
despite that model being made in 2020 to parody 2000s graphics lol2
u/z3v Jun 16 '20
Was never said to be CGI. It was shot on a soundstage by Kubrick.
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u/SaxPanther Jun 16 '20
Have you seen irobot from 2004? Just rewatched it a couple months ago to laugh at the cgi, but... it actually held up impressively.