I’m nominated for an Oscar for Ex Machina’s visual effects,but the increasing sophistication and falling costs of CGI means nearly all movies feature it – and it’s no longer the scapegoat for shoddy work elsewhereVisual effects are not fresh. They’ve been integral to cinema from the start, from Georges Méliès’s 1902 film A Trip to the Moon to Citizen Kane; from Star Wars to, and well,Star Wars again. But unlike other departments such as costume design or sound mixing, the technology that drives VFX advances quickly. This innovation is directly reflected on screen, and when a film seems shoddy,it’s the fresh and unfamiliar which are often blamed.
Computer-generated imagery has been the technology pushing change in VFX for the past 20 years. The term is something of a misnomer: these effects are no more created by a computer than Microsoft Word creates the modern novel.
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Source: theguardian.com