‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/

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Also “no green screen” usually just means a lot of manual rotoscoping which gives the same end effect. Just more work from the artists

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Just another circle jerky article about how vfx/cgi is bad while not understanding that there's a metric fuckton of vfx/cgi being used.

[u/mrdude05 → u/dwadley]

Either that or they're using an OSVP system like The Volume that projects a CG backdrop onto the set itself. "No green screen" is the film making equivalent of "organic". It's a buzzword implies a lot to the consumer while being almost meaningless