Your first thought at the title of this post was probably; "Ah crap, she's doing anime post." Yes. Yes I am. In this blog post, I'll be doing exactly what the title says: looking at examples of good and bad CGI in anime. One very good example of CGI used in anime would be the TV anime, Land of the Lustrous. The CGI is smooth and fluid, that actually feel relaxed and at ease while watching the show, which is entirely in CGI. What I consider to be good CGI is based on two factors: how well it fits into the scene(s) and if it has fluid animation. I don’t want to see a CGI car is thrown awkwardly into a scene. Neither do I want to see a 3D monster that moves in a choppy manner, unlike the rest of the characters that are moving in a fluid manner. I want to see effects, I want to see fluid movement, I want to see how it flows with the scene. Sometimes, the 3D model is good and well-designed, but it can’t integrate with a scene, which messes it up. There are some anime with CGI that have a great storyline and graphics, but can easily be ruined by how the CGI is presented. Take Arifureta: Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest) for example. The CGI monster just... doesn't fit. It stands out so much that it makes it bad. It doesn't integrate with the scene. It... it just makes me cringe to see. I am legitimately bothered by it. The scene would've been better if it mixed more with the scene. There are times where good CGI mixes with bad CGI, which can also affect the quality of the anime’s graphics. One example would be in Kandagawa Jet Girls. In this scene, when the jet skis are taking off, you see how the mix into the scene of the race. It “mixes” well with the water graphics. But then, the CGI characters that had to be made for the particular purpose of the jet skis. When I watched this scene, I cringed a little bit. The characters did not rarely moved. And if they did, it was only slightly, like to rise. But the most noticeable part is the hair. On the characters with long hair, the animation was semi-fluid. It only had certain parts of the hair that would move, which made look kind of natural. However, the characters with short-hair had the entirely of their hair move. It was just one shape moving, whereas the long-haired characters had several parts of their hair moving. The short-haired character’s hair looked very unnatural, which ruined the scene for me.
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