Over at the frequently amusing, ever-quirky blog Within the Cranium, I ran across this demo reel from Stargate Studios, “a high tech production company offering visual effects and production services to the film and television industries.” It’s called simply “Trust No Video.” And that pretty much says it all.
Some of those sequences contain fairly obvious CGI elements. (What is it about really high canyon shots that makes them so impossible for FX folks to carry off without looking cartoonish?) Others, on the other hand, are completely seamless. The cityscapes, in particular, strike me as absolutely convincing. (Sorry to break this to you, Margaret, but you could not have popped onto the freeway and headed down to D.C. to see Jack in person. He’s not to be trusted.)
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