Marvel Overuses CGI | Analyzing Bad VFX

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CGI has never really bothered me... Until Black Panther. That fight scene between T'Challa and Killmonger is literally just animation.

Pixar uses too much CGI

This video is still accurate even 3 years later. The CGI in No Way Home was jarring sometimes. Especially the final swing

Costume designers: "Here's a real life, tangible, photo-realistic suit that we spent hours and hours on" Marvel: "Cool, we're gonna make the whole thing CGI" Costume designers: "But why?" Marvel: "Because"

The final fight in black panther looks like it hasn’t finished rendering

Marvel : makes cool suits Also Marvel : covers it up with CGI

Spider-Man 2 (2004) ended up winning an Oscar for VFX, is a great example of when to use CGI and when to not. They created real Animatronic arms for Doc Ock. The iconic Train Sequence took two years to complete. Not because they couldn’t use CGI. It’s because they want it to look as realistic as it can. They even went to Chicago to film elevated Train tracks then merged it with the clips of New York buildings and then applied little VFX as a final touch up to the characters.

TASM series literally has the most realistic web swinging and CGI work

The CGI in TASM 2 is honestly the best, too bad the script couldn't live up to the VFX

Far from home was all CGI you predicted the future

It’s the same issue with Black Widow and Shang-Chi, the CGI looks unfinished. The scene where Yelena jumps onto the helicopter looks awful and so does the scaffold fight scene. It was actually ridiculous.

One of the reasons why TDK trilogy and other Nolan's movies because he knows when to use cgi and not to overuse it. I love that in batman begins there actually is batmobile driving on roofs and minimal cgi.

CGI saturation takes me out of movies so much. Watching older movies with practical effects and a strong focus on story is a breath of fresh air.

I heard that the CGI fight between T'Challa and Killmonger was being worked on for months by Method Studios, and then literally 6 weeks before deadline, production was like "Let's change LITERALLY EVERYTHING." So... yeah. Method basically had to scrap everything they had done and create and render that entire scene from scratch over the course of like 6 weeks. From what I've heard, VFX get treated like absolute crap in the industry. They're artists, not miracle workers. They need time and also money. And no one in Hollywood wants to give them either. It really sucks :(

Genuinly curious what was the point of making Holland's DIY suit CGI. I could understand the main suit considering the flat, tight look they were going for (even if I disagree with that stylistic choice), but the DIY suit seems like it would be more effort than it's worth to CGI

Why does this video have so many dislikes? He’s barely even giving his own opinion. A majority of this is just straight facts!

CGI is like spices: they improve everything if used carefully. if you try to create a dish purely out of spices, its gonna fail

The costume department must have been furious. All that effort to make a really cool Spider-Man costume tailor fitted to Tom Holland and then have cgi go over the top of it? Why? It’s a waste of money on cgi too

I still think that Tobey Maguire's suit is the best live-action suit we've ever seen. It still holds up 20 years later - doesn't feel dated, the head mask's eyes look great and menacing.... Don't get my started on the Black Suit - perfection.