As far as big swings with CGI go, sometimes, the results are amazing, other times, they’re not so purrr-fect. Brad Pitt played the titular role in 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantasy film about a man who ages backwards. Of course, for the scenes where Brad Pitt was really old (well, young… it’s confusing), his face and body were altered using CGI. The drastic results were pretty impressive at the time, and the film won Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects at the 2009 Academy Awards.
On the other hand (or paw), 2019’s Cats was critical flop, and its CGI graphics were… no comment. Stars like Idris Elba and Taylor Swift were morphed into half-cat, half-human characters, which could have been great in theory, but it made fans… want to claw their eyes out. The film had to release multiple cuts, as the first had continuity errors in need of even more CGI, like Judi Dench wearing her own wedding band in some shots, per Stylist. Meanwhile, outlets like Variety called Tom Hopper’s film adaptation of the beloved musical, and its “digital fur technology,” “creepy.” No wonder Taylor Swift may have potentially thrown shade at the film on her 2020 album evermore, singing on the title track, “Motion capture [a CGI technique] / Put me in a bad light.”
CGI is so widespread, the technique made it into a Taylor Swift song!
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