Isn't this new CGI amazing?

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:42 pm

I was strolling along, minding my own business when I came across this amazeing picture of a werewolf (damn, I need to find it though.) Thats when I thought 'Wow'. Put that wolf in the forest, give me that picture and claim werewolves are real, and maybe I'd just have to beleive you. Yet, nothing is as it seems anymore! I love to look at advertisements for cat related things in magizines, sitting at the dentists today I notice an ad for IAMS of cats climbing up on each other to reach a bag of catfood. Though I know no cats are really going to do that, it looked really good.

Its everywhere, photomanipulations and certainly in movies. It seems to be amazing how people can create something looking so real. I was wondering, what do you guys think out it?

((Can't wait to see whats in Freeborn.))

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:17 pm

It's amazing what they can do with computers now. This is CG:

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:22 pm

Wow, everything in that picture looks totally real except the tomatoes.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:35 pm

Yikes, I wouldn't have known that wasn't a photo. I would have thought it airbrushed a little, maybe to hide blemishes on the fruit.

In my pipe-dreams of seeing my own story made into a movie, I asked myself what I'd do given an imaginary $100 million budget for special effects. And, I had decided that pure CGI still wasn't quite ready. (Granted, this was a mulling I did back around 2001. CGI tech is growing exponentially, and in a few years, it may soon be indistinguishable from the real thing.) Instead, I opted in my pipe-dream to do traditional puppetry and animatronics, and then use CGI to polish up the effect.

My thoughts proved themselves out with Underworld, which for all its plot flaws and believability issues looked cool. My last thoughts before finding the Pack was if I had the fortune to blow, I'd hire the effects studio who did Underworld and then put them through Goldenwolf Boot Camp, making them learn what wolves and thus werewolves look like. (Fur, tails, noses, etc; all the stuff we've gone over back around February or so.) Today, given the money, I'd probably donate the first $6.1 million to Freeborn, let Cachel, ReQuest, and Albee get famous, and hire them.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:44 pm

LOL, quite the hopeful chap aren't we?

Joking aside, I hope that your books do get made into movies one day. I have only read small portions, but what I read was good.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:45 am

I prefer normal drawings and other 'hand-made'-art. CGI gets really old. Just look at the new upcoming remake of 'Stormblast' by Dimmu Borgir. It just sucks compared to the original.

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:49 am

The thing about CGI is that when you see something real, you love it but when something else comes that looks MORE real, the first picture looks like crap.

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:09 pm

Aha! I found the picture of the werewolf! Just needs a background.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17966076/

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:14 pm

WOAH!!! ULTRA REALISTIC!! AND HIGH DEF!!!

Teh_DarkJokerWolf · Post by **Teh_DarkJokerWolf** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:38 pm

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:49 pm

*whistels* dang that is good!

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:26 pm

Not bad. But maybe because I look at photos all day it doesn't look photorealistic to me.

Stone Wolf · Post by **Stone Wolf** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:34 pm

It looks good, but not real... still really cool though!

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:39 pm

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:39 pm

Looks realler than most werewolf movies Ill tell that much.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:41 pm

Wow, the workmanship is amazing. I wouldn't necessarily depict werewolves that way (little bit too wolfy for my tastes), but that is just beautiful!

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:28 am

Looks nice, but still it looks more like he's turning into a complete wolf.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:59 am

Cool!! Looks good!! I also like the other stuff she has.

Imagine werewolves chaseing this type of squirrel!!

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18820631/

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:07 am

Lol, funny.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:46 pm

OMG its the squerral that attacked me last year and made me spill my drink!!!