The strange power of CGI explored in a strangely powerful CGI video

Except that it’s not perfect or realistic. The movement is wrong, the light is wrong, the figure is not weighted properly (her butt sits on the chair like it’s a hard malleable shell), the skin tones are cartoonish. Light produces various tones as it bounces off of objects in space, and as well as it recedes from the light source.

A brown object next to a blue one will see these tones produced in the reflected light. You see none of that here. Perhaps it annoys me I am a classically trained artist… I have a very calibrated eye for first principles in chiaroscuro, animation and the effect of weight on mass compared to the average Joe.

This is a nice video, but it’s not any sort of indicator about the state of CGI. I have seen much much better.

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