CGI – Changing Cinematic Experience

Cinema – a world of exaggerations; it’s cool yet acceptable to watch Peter Parker flying in the sky, Eric Bana expands when gets angry, and what not, something that cannot even possible in the real world. The world of entertainment is continuously introducing different graphical inserts to make the movie more appealing and interesting to hook audience at large. Name at least one or two of your favorite cartoons that you are still enjoying or if you’re not; you must be noticing that your favorite cartoon character started looking a bit different nowadays; just a little bit real. Thanks to the CGI – Computer-generated Imagery, that is turning our favorite imaginative world close to realism.

The Best Cinema Experience

CGI used in films, TV programs, games and commercials, and sometimes in print media. Although Video games use real-time computer graphics, the pre-rendered cut scenes and intros are the typical CGI.

Games like Dota 2, World of Warcraft and Emperior are some of the examples. If you are not fortunate enough to have a hold on these games yet because they are not available in your region, you can always have the access with a best Gaming VPN.

CGI Characters

Do you know that with CGI character don’t need to be physically available on the set, images are enough to create the realistic appearance?

Yes, you heard it right, let’s revive your memory and see how we have been fooled in recent films.

• Richard Parker: a CGI tiger that we saw back in 2012, in the movie Life of Pi. You can never distinguish the scenes with Richard and ones which featured King, the real tiger. Only a few of the scenes captured with the real King; may be all the other animals used in the movie were also animated.
• Davy Jones: you must have seen the Pirates of the Caribbean, the entire exterior of Davy Jones was CGI; one cannot deny the fact that he wasn’t ready to create. Have a look

• Transformers: We can’t ignore the CGI effects in this movie; they were spot-on. Creating animations that instantly change cars into towering transformers is not an easy job; Optimus Prime alone created 10,000 individual parts, and then render the entire project of with Industrial Light & Magic 38 hours.
• The Fast and the Furious 7 and the Hunger Games: the sudden death of Paul Walker and Philip Seymour Hoffman, enforce directors to continue the filming process using the CGI versions of both the actors for the remaining scenes.
• Avatar: The beautiful landscape and realistic dinosaurs in the movie don’t exist in the real world, thanks to the unique effects of being so magical. The statuesque blue Na’vi created with striking facial movements, with incredibly innovative facial-motion recognition techniques.
• Nordic Subaru Commercial: Graphical inserts for use in car commercials are pretty impressive, but this one is exceptional. This entire ad is CGI, using Vray, 3ds Max, and After Effects.

Other than Cinema…

• World of Warcraft: one of the top rated yet addicted MMORPG -Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, World of Warcraft, use CGI to create an incredibly realistic fantasy world.
• Surgery Implantation: One of the many medical uses of CGI is the creation and preparation of implants; medical experts are using CGI  for cranial implants. It used for victims of head injury and trauma. Surgeons create patient-specific implants with CGI, the technology used in surgeries before it gets widely available.
• In Courtrooms: Computer-generated imagery has been using in courtrooms, since early 2000s, helping judges to better visualize the sequence of events, hypothesis or evidence.

Why CGI?

CGI is for creating visual effects because of the higher quality and effects are controllable than other physically based processes. Such as hiring extras for crowd scenes or constructing miniatures for shots. It also allows the creation of images that couldn’t be possible and with any other technology.

As mentioned it also allows an artist to act without the use of other-left, expensive set pieces, or props.

Recent CGI software’s increase computer speeds that allowing individual artists and small producers to produce professional grade games, films, and fine art right from their home computers.Does CGI bring ratings?

CGI entertaining both adults and children, transforming gaming world and dominating cinemas since last decade; it’s been one of the well-known technologies in the world entertainment. It all boils down to a fact: people pay to be entertained. We know CGI is impressive when it’s done well, but again the core is always a good story-line, believable yet relatable characters and the content should empathize with or despise. Just as lousy writing distracts the reader from the story similarly, unrealistic or over-the-top Cleft lead to walk-outs at the cinema.

Unlike technologies that have been and gone in the presence of CGI, no doubt, it’s improving all the time. Although CGI is signing traditional animation’s death warrant, like all new things, CGI was also a novelty, that now becomes a norm.

Author Bio:

Zubair Khan – a foodie by choice and tech enthusiast by profession. He loves to get his hands into modern technology trends and share the knowledge with everyone. He is currently working fulltime for ReviewsDir as a Digital Marketing Executive. Aside of the work life, Zubair loves to travel new places and explore nature, food is still his first love though! Twitter