Yeah the people don't seem to fit in. They should have gone whole-CGI, just having a couple of actors here and there in an otherwise totally CGI environment just looks funky, especially when the composition is off. I didn't think the trailer was necessarily bad, but it did look generic as feck, even for Warcraft.
That's because everyone lumps CGI and compositing into one category. The stuff they do on the computer looks off for some reason. That's what people mean.
yeah, the CGI part is most likely comped with image based lighting, so they fit the world perfectly! as for the actors on green screens its sadly a different story. :(
what i`m guessing with the full cg animation and it not being done a lot is that the general moviegoing audience considers full CGI movies as cartoons (aka kids movies) and don`t take them serious at first glance which would result in a lot less people going to see the movie. I assume this sentiment will change in the…
It's funny how so many casual people say the CGI looks bad in movies, when half the time it's because the compositing with the live action was done poorly :) Then again, compositing is technically images altered on a computer, so maybe they're half right?!. o_O