We dwell in a world the place CGI in films has gotten so good that it may be tough to inform what was accomplished virtually and what was accomplished in a pc for any given seen. Whereas Tom Cruise could trip bikes off cliffs, there’s no want for him to truly try this for it to look like he’s doing that. In reality, CGI is so pervasive that it usually seems in pictures the place you’d by no means anticipate it, like a shot of Daniel Craig holding a gun in a James Bond movie.
There’s an extended standing rumor that has been round for almost a decade that there’s a scene in Skyfall through which Daniel Craig needed to have his palms digitally altered to take away a set of gloves that he had been sporting as a result of it didn’t make sense for the character to have them, since Bond’s gun required his fingerprint to perform. YouTube channel Hall Crew lately reviewed the difficulty and one of many present’s artists, Wren, defined the state of affairs like this…
To make clear, what the entire thing is, there may be this rumor that went round that Daniel Craig had these gloves that he actually favored and he purchased them on his time off. He satisfied the director that he needed to put on them within the scene, the director was like, ‘Yeah, certain, no matter.’ They filmed the entire scene after which realized, ‘Wait…’ However you are utilizing a glove, so subsequently by your personal logic within the film he should not be capable to use that gun. However he makes use of it.
The current YouTube video has VFX artists reviewing scenes from movies to react to each the perfect and worst of CGI work. What makes their video most attention-grabbing is that it’s steered that we’ve been wanting on the flawed scene from Skyfall the entire time.
It had beforehand been steered the offending scene comes from a fist combat sequence when Bond is at a on line casino in Macau, however right here the crew thinks the scene in query comes a couple of minutes earlier within the movie when Bond is quietly shifting via an empty glass workplace constructing, and holding his gun the entire time.
The explanation they assume that is truly the scene in query is as a result of it features a fairly blatant continuity error. On the finish of the sequence Bond is preventing with a sniper who finally ends up hanging off the sting of the constructing, holding on to Bond’s hand, which is sporting a glove that wasn’t there within the earlier pictures.
This error leads the VFX artist reviewing the scene to confess that there most likely is CGI within the pictures, although, they admit that the CGI is definitely actually good, because it’s tough to inform with the bare eye. In fact, the entire thing is made moot by the irritating continuity error that largely ruins the laborious work. Wren continued…
That is so dumb, I hate every thing about this. It is wanting like perhaps they did substitute place his palms all through this shot. I take difficulty with them not going all the best way, the tip of the sequence, when he grabs the dude’s hand and so they nonetheless have the continuity error! That is what I do not like about this! What is the level of placing in that effort?! That’s one thing they will do as a pickup with some other two random actors, it would not need to be your principal actor.
Whether or not or not the continuity error was attributable to CGI or not, the truth that it exists is a bit wild. Whereas the CGI, if there may be CGI, would doubtless have been much more noticeable within the closeup of the palms, as is identified right here, the shot might have been grabbed as a decide up shot utilizing different actors with out a lot issue.
Whereas we nonetheless don’t have official affirmation of Daniel Craig’s CGI palms, and probably by no means will, the proof that this was accomplished is stacking up.