Bad Movie :( 1. Overused CGI Effects without added value 2. bad constructed love triangle for the crowd 3. no arc of suspense because the dwarfs are "immortal" 4. to much action killing CGI Orcs without value 5. pale characters, the dwarfs are boring like hell
But i think thats a great problem. Without the "real" feeling you dont worry for the dwarfes, or Frodo. You are simple a spectator and you must endure 3h boring Story. And yes smaug is a good CGI dragon. Boring 0815 design but okay. But really for a damn CGI Effect i dont go in the cinema, better looking at Afishers Dark…
What I want Jackson to do is this; Once the hobbit trilogy is done take the LOTR series and update the CGI to fit the standard of the Hobbit. Gollum looked amazing in the Hobbit..
I enjoyed the second one. Though, anyone else noticing that the hobbit's CGI just isnt holding up as well as LOTR was? Its just soooo noticeable. Smaug was awesome though. i enjoyed him.
just saw the movie, wow just wow seriously this is why i want to be a 3d character artist, the life and personality they managed to get into those cgi creatures is just astounding. just on all levels a great movie
more complaints about the CGI on page 10 of this thread. personally i thought smaug looked too typically fantasy-illustration-like. i thought the dinosaur-esque ringwraith-steeds from LOTR had a better design. reign of fire dragons were cool, too (the film - not so much ;) ). smaug to me often appeared quite lost in that…
I totally stand by this and loved the style of the film. But when a film really, really doesn't need to be 3 movies, you have to think "maybe we don't need a 5 minute scene of dwarves falling though caves. maybe that 6 weeks could be spent polishing some of the unfinished shots." The sequence you mention being done in 6…
I had the exact same thought about the CGI in both Hobbit movies until I realized something. It was never meant to look real. Lord of the rings was approached as "this is happening" So everything has a very realistic and gritty feeling. In a lot of cases you feel like you are actually there right next to the characters.…
There's a HUGE difference between wanting it to look like a story being told and just poor CG though... at the start of the second one, I definitely thought wow, is this suppose to look so old. It had an old cinema type feel to it. and that was ok. it was the filters and what not. but when you get CGI characters in there…
The CGI was never meant to look "less realistic", it's more about the realities of the job... All LOTR movies had some hopelessly incomplete shots as well, because of the amount of work and lack of time. Peter Jackson also likes to come up with completely new sequences just a few months before the release, to make it even…