Disney has come under fire after a video resurfaced showing horribly CGI-generated background actors in the movie "Prom Pact."
  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    1 year ago

    Definitely looks terrible but things like this aren’t new. Whole crowds of orc and humans were CGI in at least one Lord of the Rings film. They used a lot of actors but still needed fill.

    I don’t really see an issue with extras being replaced.

    • OscarRobin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      First of all, LOTR didn’t replace all actors in any battle scene. They used their brand new ‘MASSIVE’ software for the tens of thousands of characters too distant to distinguish from the hundreds and thousands real actors used that were visible.

      The other difference is that scale - it was literally not possible for LOTR to have enough extras due to complexity, local population, and budget. This is a scene with only a couple dozen people on screen at any moment.