Thought the Final Fantasy movie looked bad?

Vinny N

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This stuff might be some of the best renders out there but I still don't see anything to be excited about.

The light still seems unusual, I guess there's more math to be done before we get truly natural light.

The hand skin textures are pretty good, the nails don't look right (I've never seen nails like those before, any of them). The shapes of the fingers needs work. The thumb in one of the renders doesn't look right at all.

The faces, eyes, and facial skin probably is fine if it weren't for the unusual light, though there's still something missing in the eyes, they're shiny but they look like they're actually wet, maybe it's just the lighting again.

Anyone a DS9 fan? There was an episode where Odo said he could change to look like a bird, and to us it would seem like a real bird, but it would never fool another bird.

That's how I see these renders. Good stuff, but there's progress to be made before we ever mistake one of these renders for another person.


The movie itself? I'm one of those punks who thinks the movie could have stood on its own as "The Spirits Within". Selling it with the FF title was rather lame IMO.
 

diskop

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Originally posted by: BigPotato
WOW

i bet you ugys all clicked on the bikini girl like idid first.
ahaah

Of course, but I think that one is from the maxim spread they did a while back
 

HonkeyDonk

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Originally posted by: Vinny_N
This stuff might be some of the best renders out there but I still don't see anything to be excited about.

The light still seems unusual, I guess there's more math to be done before we get truly natural light.

The hand skin textures are pretty good, the nails don't look right (I've never seen nails like those before, any of them). The shapes of the fingers needs work. The thumb in one of the renders doesn't look right at all.

The faces, eyes, and facial skin probably is fine if it weren't for the unusual light, though there's still something missing in the eyes, they're shiny but they look like they're actually wet, maybe it's just the lighting again.

Anyone a DS9 fan? There was an episode where Odo said he could change to look like a bird, and to us it would seem like a real bird, but it would never fool another bird.

That's how I see these renders. Good stuff, but there's progress to be made before we ever mistake one of these renders for another person.


The movie itself? I'm one of those punks who thinks the movie could have stood on its own as "The Spirits Within". Selling it with the FF title was rather lame IMO.

jeez vinny_n, calm down dude. So what if it's not perfect, it's still pretty damn good IMO. And i have no idea what you're talking about with the nails, but they look pretty normal to me. How can you say you've never seen nails like that. Everyone has different shape/style of nails.
 

Kadarin

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Originally posted by: Calundronius
I thought the movie looked freakin awesome, its the plot I had problems with. ;)

I agree completely. It was bad sci-fi full of some excellent eye-candy. They should have had J. Michael Straczynski and Harlan Ellison do it... :D

These pics are quite good, but I agree that the fingers aren't quite right, and there are other minor issues. Also, you can't make the judgement without watching how they do the full motion.
 

Vinny N

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Originally posted by: HonkeyDonk<brjeez vinny_n, calm down dude. So what if it's not perfect, it's still pretty damn good IMO. And i have no idea what you're talking about with the nails, but they look pretty normal to me. How can you say you've never seen nails like that. Everyone has different shape/style of nails.

Hey, just stating my opinion :p I didn't claim it wasn't good, but I still don't think it's anything at all to be excited about. I was trying to express how odd the nails looked to me. I've seen plenty of different kinds of nails on different people. I understand that everyone has different shape/style of nails, so by saying I've never seen nails like that, I'm trying to say, I think there's something wrong with the ones rendered there. Maybe it's just the unnatural light again. :p

 

Mani

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Some of those renders look amazingly realistic. The closeups on the faces could pass for photographs.
 

UglyCasanova

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Originally posted by: Mani
Some of those renders look amazingly realistic. The closeups on the faces could pass for photographs.

Not quite. As mentioned earlier, the lighting is off. I looks CG. Damn good CG, but still... I think we still have a ways to go in algorithms and technology before we truly achieve a realistic render. Still amazing though.
 

Mani

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Well obviously if you nitpick, you'll find problems sooner or later, but I would bet that if you just showed those closeups to some random person, they would believe them to be actual photographs. I know when I saw the aki ross pic on the cover of Stuff magazine, I had no idea it was rendered till someone told me.