Some CGI comparisons

I absolutely love this movie! I think what I love about it the most is the character development,

it really works, despite very little expression or language used, the emotional impact is carried

through amazingly simply by sticking to body language and of course basic facial expression-

mostly conveyed through the eyes.

In terms of technical aesthetic the movie is absolutely stunning and at times I find it hard to

believe that this is pure computer graphics- with reference to the early scenes in which wall-e

is cleaning up around the city and the camera pans out to display the buildings etc it looks

very realistic- especially when compared to later scenes when wall-e and eve are aboard the

ship and the rubbery flubber type humans come into vision.

I noticed that the video content played within the film was actually "real life" (unless i've been

totally fooled?) which reminded me of "happy feet" which used the same method of mixing

real life humans in with the CGI, this effect seems to work almost perfectly now with no jarring

whatsoever, unlike the other way around, when films use CGI for special effects and it can

sometimes be quite jarring to go from live-action to CGI and back again.

which brings me to another technical achievement in CGI, "beowulf" which uses CGI to basically

imitate real life, so the characters are human featuring realistic skin textures, eyes, teeth etc and

cleverly made to resemble "real life" actors in order to bring about a sense of familiarity and some

sort of connection to the characters.

From what I have heard, not alot of people liked this film, and so many people couldn't understand

why it was done in CGI when it was made to look so life-like.

My response to this was budget. surely it must save them money just sticking to software?

another reason besides the obvious artistic implements, or maybe not so much a reason but just the

fact that you don't have to worry about that jarring feeling that can occur when watching real life

suddenly jump to CGI, ie: spiderman, ok it looks cool but it's also a little irritating to me to see him go all

rubbery and fake looking as he starts to jump around, although visually quite breathtaking as you are

able to see things as you never have before, you are still always aware that it is not real.