Posts tagged CGI 
Witness Final Fantasy XIV's reborn realm in new trailer
There is kind of a lot going on in Final Fantasy XIV's reborn realm. Like, some sort of an angry mounted swordsman, and fireworks, and lots of other things that make pretty lights. Square Enix's CG department sure didn't pull any punches this time. ...
Visual Works explains how Tomb Raider's big E3 trailer came to be
If you were capable of watching the E3 2011 Tomb Raider trailer without fully freaking out, well, frankly, we're worried about your health. For the rest of us, Square Enix and Eidos have released a near 15-minute-long "making of" to walk us through all the gory details of its creation. ...
Shogun 2: Total War trailer assembles for battle
There's totally a war going down between the old and new shogun, and this latest CGI trailer for Shogun 2: Total War from The Creative Assembly and Sega really demonstrates that. Thankfully for us, it's a virtual war based on events that took place long ago. Whew! ...
Wii makes cameo in Despicable Me
Nintendo's little white box is set to make a cameo in Steve Carell's upcoming CG joint, Despicable Me. You'll spot in the recently released trailer for the July 2010 film, which chronicles the lives of two warring supervillains. Apparently, when you're the best that supervillainy has to offer, you ...
Philosony: Yea, though I walk through the uncanny valley...
I wrote a few weeks back about the uncanny valley and Hideo Kojima's possibly telling observation that war machines of the future may exploit the creepiness of robotic simulations to instill fear in their prey. I want to turn my attention now to a discussion of the valley as it applies more ...
Point your single oversized eyeball at this Resident Evil: Degeneration trailer
Comic Con 08 attendees were recently treated to a new, two-minute trailer for the upcoming CGI motion picture Resident Evil: Degeneration. The series' previous, lackluster live action installments enveloped our hard hearts in a thick shell of apprehension towards the new movie when it was ...
Run for the new Alone in the Dark CGI trailer
Whether you run "to" or "away from" this video is up to you, but Atari has given MTV a new CGI trailer for the oft-delayed Alone in the Dark game. Whereas we were impressed by the in-game trailer from late January, this footage left us feeling less enthused. We do wonder, however, if the ...
Ubisoft to open CGI film studio in Quebec, partially funded by Canada
Word from the Canadian newswire is that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is preparing to announce a major "growth plan for the company" tomorrow. According to Québécois newspaper La Presse, Guillemot will unveil plans for a new computer-animation studio in Quebec, which would initially ...
Misleading TV ads face UK ban
Game ads have been showing pre-rendered CGI images, rather than in-game footage, for a while -- but the UK advertising industry has only just caught on. After complaints that Call of Duty 2's graphics didn't match up to the advertising, games ads have been hastily slapping a disclaimer on and hoping ...
Phony PS3 screenshot busted?
First off, let me extend the olive branch of peace to our new neighbors at PS3Fanboy. Here's a snazzy "screenshot" from the PS3 title Motorstorm presented at last year's E3: And here's an actual game image from Motorstorm taken at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Jose ...
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More unfinished business: Cavanagh's vectorized tongues and the RPG that doesn't exist
Posted on May 20th 2013 11:30AM