FalmerEldritch

A slightly rough blobby rubber dummy creature is going to look like a slightly rough, blobby, rubbery creature forever, because it's actually something that's there in the shot.

Even a very good CGI creature is eventually going to just look like old CGI.

 

^{(In before people wade in with the stuff about digital compositing - digital compositing and computer created imagery aren't necessarily the same thing. Making something out of whole cloth on a computer is a very different thing than just using a computer to cut and paste two photographic elements together. Also, creatures, especially humans, are incredibly hard to do in CGI -- buildings and vehicles are much much easier, and even things like fire and water are relatively doable now.)}

ca. 2001 this was the absolute peak of CGI creatures, and people were expressing doubt about whether it was possible to get any more realistic than this, as well as assuming that finally here was some CGI that wasn't going to age and start looking unconvincing.

That's just Saturday night to me.

Hit me with that gay shit.

Speaking of, why's there (next to?) none of it on Nutaku?

There's some really sterling work on the visuals. Great models, and a lot of thoroughly seamless digital compositing. The CGI critters, particularly Gollum, still look alright, but you can often see them not quite touching the ground or dispersing light just right.

Man, I would love to be able to have a surgery that takes away my fear of dying and speech inhibition. I don't suppose there's a pill I can take for that?