holy shit. whatever man.

if your brother is still at ILM, tell him to say "hi". hopefully he's less of a pig headed asshat than you.

Clearly not. I gave you the professional definition directly from master class. You disagree with them too.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cgi
Any “computer generated image”.

You do disagree with the established definition, and you have every right to be wrong. I have every right to contradict you.

Because your argument is not professional, logical, technically correct, or rational, I’m not picking up on that.

You have no idea what my CGI experience might be. My brother was offered a job at Lucas Ranch (before ILM, before Pixar). I’ve been exposed to computer generated images and the terminology surrounding them since the 80s.

I’m also not trying to use the definition you and your close office mates might have decided is correct among yourselves, I’m using the definition you can find in any dictionary or classroom. You aren’t giving any definition nor any citations to back it up.

Edit: PS- again, what sales pitch?!

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I followed my passion and it worked out. Grew up in a bunch of small oil towns in Canada, no where near any big cities in the 80's and 90's(oil is where most of my friends from that time ended up and look where that's gone.) I really liked to draw and had a lofty goal to work in visual effects for film, which was a VERY difficult, niche thing at the time... very unrealistic to get into. People laughed when I was getting a bachelor's degree in fine art in Uni because there was no money in it. Long story short, I'm doing quite well, have worked on many films at several companies including Pixar, and am currently working on the next Starwars at ILM. People from my childhood can't even believe it, but that's the difference between following a passion and "applying passion" to what seems a sensible, realistic choice.

Following a passion may not lead you to where you expected to go like the post above, but there is no right and wrong decisions, just choices that tell the story of your life. All you can do is negotiate the fork your currently at, with some loose idea of where you want to go and you'll go somewhere interesting. Maybe I should have been a fucking motivational speaker...

If this video had stopped at the first 10 seconds, I would still have upvoted for the ILM dude with the Ray Harryhausen tshirt.

*quality

*comics *parody *commercial *wtf

I still haven't seen this movie/f(ilm/lick).

This is something I've suspected for a few years now. If they are using CG for a lot of these nature closeups, they've got the best in the business because I can't spot it.
I sincerely doubt that's the case simply because they'd be producing hours and hours of flawless, ILM/WETA-level CG, and that's just not feasible.

Your video, 40 years of ILM's magic in one minute..., has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This is begging for some SFX treatment. How much do you think it would cost to contract ILM?

Now I know where ILM got the pod racer sound effect from.

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I have tremendous respect for the CGI craft and the talented artists involved but this kind of work is on a totally different level. Watching this video reminds me of the work that ILM did back in the late 70's and early 80's when Phil Tippett was working on Dragonslayer, Empire, and Jedi. John Nolan seems to have an appreciation of the methodology where he thinks.."Yeah...I can animate these claws...but how else am I gonna freak the kids out when they knock on the door trick-or-treating??"

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