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[hatchx]

This has been really bothering me.

The intro to Better Call Saul Episode 7, "Inflatable". Great episode, but the look of the intro with young Saul and his father has this strange look, and I can't help by feel it was animated.

It looks so good it looks real, but something looks *not real about it. Like it was really well done CG or something.


I uploaded some high res images from the scene on imgur here. Look at the hands. They look a little plastic like CG.

Am I crazy? Is it animated? Was it filmed and given an animated look?

 

[Robot Pants]

I doubt they would go through the trouble.
It's just lighting

 

[triplestation]

ill have what youre having

 

[minor effort]

Sounds like it would be needlessly expensive.

 

[blame space]

it was definitely animated I'm glad someone finally said it

 

[rekameohs]

Yo, what? All the flashback scenes in BCS have a filter over them.

Spoiler

ask Joakim Mogren

 

[TheSeks]

No, it's lighting. You can see that sort of shade in other films/shows that are trying to give a 1950/1960-70's look.

 

[blame space]

this scene was so much better after chuck's sob story to Kim after she made his dumb ass coffee.

 

[Rimon-hanit]

Why would they use CGI for such a simple scene?

 

[blame space]

now the tube man, some of the shit they had him doing made me seriously think he was animated.

 

[rekameohs]

How about a thread about the four minute long one-shot opener in the next episode?

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

Little known fact for you: EVERY single Gus Fring scene in Breaking Bad was hand drawn.

 

[Social]

I don't understand why this would be the case, what was so special about the scene that it required animation?

 

[hatchx]

The hands just look so clean. They don't look real.

I know sometimes little things are animated for whatever reason. Maybe it was just the hand-shot because they needed it as a pickup?

I just can't unsee the animation. I work in film/television and nothing has ever had me so perplexed.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

#Teamreal

It's possible they just went and smoothed things out in post processing. That scene already has some shaders and false lighting applied to it

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Thought everybody realized this. CG actually looks pretty rough. At times, PS2 levels, even.

It's a shame more filmmakers don't use practical effects. This would have looked so much more natural with puppets or animatronic costumes.

 

[hatchx]

Thought everybody realized this. CG actually looks pretty rough. At times, PS2 levels, even.

It's a shame more filmmakers don't use practical effects. This would have looked so much more natural with puppets or animatronic costumes.

Wait, wtf? So it is CG?


What is happening here? I searched and found nothing.

Was it animated or real? ARG?!

 

[Piichan]

The entire show is CG. I believe Howard's facial animations are done by Andy Serkis.

 

[rekameohs]

Wait, wtf? So it is CG?


What is happening here? I searched and found nothing.

Was it animated or real? ARG?!

Wait a minute, what's that I see?

Vince has been hiding this shit right in front of our faces.

 

[chrisPjelly]

Better Call Saul is this season's best anime

 

[meltingparappa]

Are you in EST? It's 1:22am

 

[hatchx]

....the OT forum is something else, I tell ya

 

[GavinGT]

....the OT forum is something else, I tell ya

You're the one asking if this obviously real footage was animated.

 

[LuffyZoro]

It was actually done using inflatable sex dolls.

 

[hatchx]

You're the one asking if this obviously real footage was animated.

 

[tauroxd]

You're the one asking if this obviously real footage was animated.

Exactly... And it should be obvious, but NO, it was not animated, it was the lighting and filter added in post.

 

[Werd]

Well, while we are on the topic....

Every time I see this Seinfeld GIF (from Curb I think) I become more convinced the rest of the people in it are still photo cutouts animated slightly in After Effects or the like.

Am I as crazy as OP?

 

[jond76]

now the tube man, some of the shit they had him doing made me seriously think he was animated.

That tube man's moves were hilarious.

 

[hateradio]

....the OT forum is something else, I tell ya

 

[Dennis]

lol wat, have you any idea how expensive that would have been?

Better CGI than Age of Ultron.

 

[Salsa]

lmao this thread

 

[Sora the Cat]

#TeamCG

 

[BlackGoku03]

#TeamReal

 

[MetatronM]

Wouldn't it just be easier to look at the episode credits?

 

[Henkka]

That would explain why Mike looks like a character from Spielberg's Tintin.

 

[Mariolee]

Between this and the Nintendo thread, OP's been weirding me out.

 

[Omzz]

What