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A prosthetic mask on a workbench beside a cracked monitor, shot in tungsten light.

The Practical-Effects Backlash Has Become Its Own Dogma

The argument against CGI and for practical effects has hardened into a specific aesthetic dogma that no longer tracks the actual craft. An essay on what the argument originally responded to and why it now misfires.

Lena Ashworth·8 Sep·7 min

A lone figure in a stage spotlight rendered as a motion-capture outline, the crowd fading into black.

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Better Man and the CGI Monkey Problem

Michael Gracey's Robbie Williams biopic cast its subject as a CGI chimpanzee and posted one of the worst wide-opening results of the year. The film is still better than its box office.

Marcus Vell·2 May·7 min