Pre-production hype: "I love CGI, but we’re not using CGI in this one," the director said to a huge round of applause.

All press for an entire year: 100% puppets!

Show debuts.

Viewers: See? Puppets are better!

Quiet VFX article: They created some CG characters.

The repercussions of the perception that "CGI sucks/CGI is easy" impacts how studios treat visual effects companies, visual effects workers' attempts to unionize, the work/life balance of visual effects workers, etc. etc. These are the repercussions that concern me the most.

and round and round we go

There are over 2000 digital visual effects shots in McQuarrie's "Mission: Impossible - Fallout".

There are over 2000 digital visual effects shots in Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road".

The replies are so weird. https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1235291871477485568

"The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance", VFX Breakdown by DNEG

hey look a studio implying there aren't any digital visual effects in their movie

here we go again https://twitter.com/Skydance/status/1270746344379080705?s=20

yep

uh

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the ww84 visual effects supervisor https://twitter.com/mofflavfx/status/1296016115387301894?s=20

a list of “100% practical” films

enjoy!

http://www.dogme95.dk/dogme-films/