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[-] T156@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

I honestly don't think that they paid that much. Most of it is probably just some stock animation that they bought and use, rather than anything specific.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 6 points 8 months ago

100 million budget. It's almost a million a minute and you think they slap stock animations for close up plot points and run the risk of having 5% of the audience going "those number are silly wtf am I watching"?

[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 8 months ago

Yes, absolutely. The big bucks are for A-listed actors, executive producers and gigatons of cocaine, not nerd fan service.

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 15 points 8 months ago

3D effects will get a much bigger fraction of the CGI budget than some random animated chart

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 8 months ago

No shit. The fraction is not: "google image, upscale, good enough but the alien finger that point at the same screen will get 6 hours to render using 50% of the elecricity of texas".

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

That's literally what stock animations exist for lmao

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it -2 points 8 months ago

They exist for fast or budgeted productions.

I feel dumb just having to argue that.

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Only a handful of movies like Avatar gets actual effort put into fully custom fake interfaces, where the producer has a big vision. But even most other blockbuster releases don't get that. Fast & The Furious with a dozen movies in the series? Nah. Anything where what's on the screen is just filler will simply not get a big budget for interfaces. Even for big budget movies.

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