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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by bkq on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:40AM (#35272635)
This is something they do, Marvel rely on outsourcing and using ununionised labour [1], and it shows in the recent films and TV shows they've made. There's a drop in the quality of the VFX. Wages for VFX artists aren't too high, as I've said, they are some of the most underpaid workers in the industry, and their protest against this is always stomped out. For a VFX worker it must be highly frustrating working in an industry where other workers are unionised, but they aren't.

[1] - https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/marvels-vfx-artis...

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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:58AM (#35272787)
Some of the Bollywood VFX is amazing. The movies may not be my cup of tea, but they do good CGI.
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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by godzillabrennus on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:24AM (#35273603)
RRR on Netflix was my first Bollywood experience and I quite liked it. The cgi was pretty bad though.
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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by lenocinor on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:11AM (#35285318)
RRR is not Bollywood technically, it’s Tollywood.
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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by flerchin on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:46AM (#35273871)
Can you point me to a clip on YouTube that you would consider to be good Bollywood VFX? I've mostly been exposed to the most comically bad Bollywood VFX.
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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by illiarian on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:25AM (#35274399)
They are not exactly bad, they are mostly over the top, and that could be a cultural thing.

RRR wouldn't be out of place in a Hollywood blockbuster.

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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:05AM (#35274095)
I can try and find a couple of the movies. Like I said, I don't watch them, so I've basically only seen the sizzle reels.

I'll bet there's some folks here, that actually watch the movies, and could point to better stuff.

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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by lenocinor on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:10AM (#35285308)
As someone who watches and loves a lot of Bollywood, I’ve never seen a Bollywood movie with good VFX.
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Re:Moviemaking and Gamemaking Are Converging by aprdm on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:06PM (#35282749)
VFX artists can definitely make a good living. Their salaries are comparable to tech if you remove the stock portion. They also work crazy OT and are paid hourly which means big money. That's true if you're more senior of course.
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