Todd Vaziriyou can all stop asking me to comment now
"Project Hail Mary" (2026)
First Christopher Miller clarifies, now Phil Lord. I am extremely grateful for them putting out this information.
The discourse is still so bad. It's one thing when internet bozo film bros spread misinformation, but when the trades just say stupid stuff like this it's just so overwhelming and depressing.
Fun fact: even those movies that you think "rely on 'CGI'" have gigantic practical effects work!
the piece is worse than the headline and deeply misleads
TO BE CLEAR:
- in half the shots in which he appears, Rocky is computer graphics animation
- Project Hail Mary used LED screens
- Top Gun Maverick had all-CG jet sequences, the Dune films had all-CG sequences, Alien Romulus had all-CG aliens
I guess writing an piece that says "good filmmakers use the right tools for the right job" —— which has been true since the dawn of cinema itself —— is just too boring for the trades
it's almost as though this happens ALL THE TIME and it's totally exhausting
https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2024/12/correcting-some-skeleton-crew.html
like I said, exhausting
(Grogu, in this shot for a piece whose theme is “CGI BAD”, is computer graphics made by computer graphics artists)
Chris Miller (and Greig Fraser) giving props to ILM on Instagram:
"Shout out to the amazing work on PROJECT HAIL MARY by the folks at ILM - All of these shots (& many hundreds more) were made completely digitally by the talented artists there."
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWZfr7lkW0p/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D
Frank