That's CGI, right?

This would be even cooler if the puppeteer's camera was used for facial motion capture and then a CGI animated face was displayed on the screen.

what you saw was a mesh with a skin shader rendering in real-time so that's how fast it renders. didn't look terribly hi-res, the real advancement here is the quality of the skin shader(for realtime) and the fidelity of the facial rig, having proper face target shapes all blending together to get complex movements with skin compression/stretching/wrinkling at this level have historically been out of reach for anything but pre-rendered cgi.

They can probably drop libraries of mocap data on this with face markers that match those manipulation points you see in the video, and animators can use them to animate, or clean up/change the motion capture data.

and the skin textures/pore detail/face model are not a technological achievement as much as the work of a skilled artist, and the deformations are the result of someone who really knows their anatomy.

since there is no animation in this video, no performance, it's hard to judge how realistic it feels. the real trick is always seeing it animated.

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I agree with you, but wonder if it isn't, and we're just getting used to the CGI slopes of the Valley.

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CGI rendered tests to further fool you into thinking it's not all CG. It's been done before.

This seems like a job for Captain Disillusion!

EDIT: Perhaps I should clarify a bit. By CGI I don't just mean it's all 3D renders. I mean more that it's all computer trickery of some sort. Some 3D, some compositing, lots of time manipulation. Just look at how often he's clearly green screened in. Look at how the cymbals move. A robotic arm can punch through a piano? There's a lot of CG going on here. And if it's in the crazier shots, I don't see why it wouldn't be in the simpler shots.

There would have been no need for all these test if it was all CGI.
https://youtu.be/mAdLcUEzu-Q
https://youtu.be/qPT0TNj-YRk
https://youtu.be/tNu6PT7KKQg

It's all CGI as far as I can tell.

I would think the lava would vapourize the snow and ice within feet of itself, but the frozen comes up right next to the molten.

Weird. All you need is the guy humming "Work at Home" and I'd being thinking it's just better CGI than this: https://videosift.com/video/That-Time-You-Were-Completely-Unaware-A-Bear-Was-Chasing-You

To comment about the "mediocre CGI" the bulk of the movie and the book takes place in VR. Technically it would be CGI for everything lol.

Failed to generate even a shred of interest. Usually I hate trailers because they spoil too much of the plot points, but I couldn't see if there's a plot at all, and the mediocre CGI didn't really sell it either.

Damn CGI is getting so realistic. That was impressive.

Yeah, those buildings are totally CGI.