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[Discotheque]

Tintin. The lighting was fucking ridiculous when he's inspecting the mansion for instance. And there were just a lot of great looking scenes in that film.

Runner up: Rango

 

[UrbanRats]

Step 3 are the final model details, step 4 are shaders and light sources being applied.

Even when you know how it's done it's still wizadry though.

I would guess he's aware of that, lol.

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

transformers 3! ILM should make a full CGI transformers movie in the future.

Rango looked really, really good. Haven't seen tintin yet though.

 

[TheOnlyMook]

Tintin and Rango both blew me away. Some of the stuff going on in those movies is pure wizardry.

Screw Avatar graphics for next gen, give me Rango graphics

 

[TDK Rises]

Not really, but hey it still looks amazing today and a little LOTR bias..

 

[Don'tBeWeird]

OP seriously nailed it.

Brilliant scene.

 

[mclaren777]

Pixar and ILM still have a long way to go if they want to match this guy's work...

The Third & The Seventh – Watch in fullscreen and feel free to jump around

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Pixar and ILM still have a long way to go if they want to match this guy's work...

The Third & The Seventh – Watch in fullscreen and feel free to jump around

That photorealistic look is ILM's bread and butter, particularly hard surface modeling. You likely don't notice such effects (i.e. digital sets, extensions, etc) because they're usually in the background and something else is drawing your eye in a shot. That said, some of the environment work in Rango is easily the best we've done and has fooled even some of our senior engineers who weren't on the show into thinking they used live plates for some of it.

And Pixar has never really gone for a truly photorealistic look in their films aside from the first bit of Wall-E, so why call them out on it?

 

[TheJollyCorner]

mediocre movie, but for a full CG film that came out in 2001, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was technically impressive.

It's a shame it basically wrecked Squaresoft and forced The Gooch to be exiled.

 

[Big Baybee]

Nothing comes close to this.

Jesus Christ, I'm dying. Thank you for posting this. Ahahaha!

 

[Tizoc]

Dammit, beaten by the OP. Rattlesnake Jake is the most badass, CGI character ever:

Cosign, his eyes is like starring into Hell itself...

 

[SapientWolf]

Tangled, not only were the visuals excellent but the character animation, expressions etc were amazing. 2D animation good.

This. Tangled was the first CG film I've seen that looked like an old school hand animated Disney cartoon.

 

[Escape Goat]

mediocre movie, but for a full CG film that came out in 2001, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was technically impressive.

It's a shame it basically wrecked Squaresoft and forced The Gooch to be exiled.

was it the beginning of the ultra sci-fi tech world we now enjoyhate in Final Fantasy games?