Avatar doesn't look very good...

Just came home from watching District 9, was told by a friend the avatar trailer was out, so took a look... Um, the CGI in the first scene when coming out of the ship, doesn't look much better then real time in-game graphics...

The rest looks better, but it has this cartoony look, for all the talk of photo-realism, District 9 was photo realistic this is... not. Infact, the art style as they fly through the floating islands looks like they actually went for an illustrated kind of look. I always thought they were aiming for realism with this movie?

Did you take a time machine into the future to see those in-game graphics?

The best looking game that I can think of is still Crysis, and the graphics don't even approach cinema quality visual effects.

Look at the start of the thing, it does look like an in-game cutscene. Even the main guy, who I assume was played by the actor, looks like CGI. It's just done really badly there...

The rest might be an art style choice? But either way it is not photo-realistic, it's cartoony, and those floating islands, looking at it again, they're not even trying to go for a photo-realistic look, it's obviously an illustrated look. So yeah, it looks nice in a way, but god knows what they were told to aim for look wise.

I've been looking forward to this movie for ages, and I still am, I'm sure it'll be great, it's just odd the way the CGI has ended up considering what they said they were aiming for, thier budget, and what they've come up with.

Some bits of the trailer look good.

Some bits of the trailer look good.

ReaperPlaya

the first and the thrid look weird but the second and the 4th look cool.

I just wanna see the epic battles but this sounds like that one movie that came out a few months ago, Battle for Terra or something

I'm not saying it all looks bad, it definetly has it's moments (well, we're judging all this on a trailer). But bits definetly look really bad, like the first bit. It's not really that impressive, and it's not like I haven't seen this level of CGI years ago.

Whether or not it'll look better in imax, I'll have to wait and see, but from that trailer, the CGI at least, isn't really a selling point.

I'm not saying it all looks bad, it definetly has it's moments (well, we're judging all this on a trailer). But bits definetly look really bad, like the first bit. It's not really that impressive, and it's not like I haven't seen this level of CGI years ago.

Whether or not it'll look better in imax, I'll have to wait and see, but from that trailer, the CGI at least, isn't really a selling point.

DriftRS