Some bad CGI for you single lovers out there on this fine Saturday night

September 29, 2012 5:21 PM

Badly Recreated Animated Film Frames: "Take a still from a multi-million dollar animated film that required thousands of man-hours to create and replicate it in Maya in 30 minutes."
posted by ardgedee (30 comments total)

Wow, if those are only taking 30 minutes, they're quite good with Maya.
posted by Malor at 5:23 PM on September 29, 2012

I love this, I love this.
posted by Greg Nog at 5:27 PM on September 29, 2012 [2 favorites]

The Jimmy Neutron one just says "toilet" on the back wall where there's a commode in the original. Freaking genius.
posted by 1adam12 at 5:28 PM on September 29, 2012 [4 favorites]

I mean, what's really remarkable here is how close this person's able to get; I'm not sure if I can even tell which one is the original and which is the re-creation in this still from The Incredibles.
posted by Greg Nog at 5:29 PM on September 29, 2012 [6 favorites]

Is this where I shill for ZBrush with its intuitive and hand-on approach to quick recreational 3D sculpting?
posted by Nomyte at 5:31 PM on September 29, 2012 [3 favorites]

Thumbs up for this Toy Story 3 shot
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:36 PM on September 29, 2012

What does it say that he came closest with his "Veggie Tales" copy?
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:40 PM on September 29, 2012 [6 favorites]

And now we know where all that money is going. Hint: it ain't on the software.
posted by clvrmnky at 5:42 PM on September 29, 2012

Really, if it only takes 30 minutes to get as close as some of these are, Maya must be light years easier to use than any software available a decade ago when I played around with 3D rendering.
posted by hippybear at 5:45 PM on September 29, 2012 [3 favorites]

love it!
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 5:49 PM on September 29, 2012

i reached the end and now i'm sad
posted by FirstMateKate at 6:04 PM on September 29, 2012 [2 favorites]

All of these are amusing, but some of them hit me really hard in the funny parts, and I really have no idea why. Like, I'm going to think of them later and laugh really hard at inappropriate times.
posted by cmoj at 7:12 PM on September 29, 2012 [1 favorite]

ok i guess?
posted by This, of course, alludes to you at 7:57 PM on September 29, 2012

I found that this did precisely what it advertised and I enjoyed reading the posts on the Tumblr.
posted by HostBryan at 8:05 PM on September 29, 2012

That Finding Nemo one looks pretty much like the animation in that "Shark Tale" rip-off movie...
posted by Jimbob at 8:48 PM on September 29, 2012

CGI hair is hard
posted by needled at 8:52 PM on September 29, 2012 [1 favorite]

These made me laugh out loud, thanks for posting.
posted by KokuRyu at 8:59 PM on September 29, 2012

OH MY GOD WHICH IS MORE HORRIBLE
posted by Saxon Kane at 9:08 PM on September 29, 2012

I don't know why this is so funny, I honestly don't, but I am crying from laughter right now.
posted by Tiresias at 9:14 PM on September 29, 2012

This is great.
posted by brundlefly at 9:32 PM on September 29, 2012

Why is this so wonderful?
posted by Kloryne at 10:00 PM on September 29, 2012

I love the one of Edna Mode in The Incredibles.
posted by zippy at 10:01 PM on September 29, 2012

These make my brain both happy and horrified, much like weird video game glitches.
posted by not_on_display at 10:11 PM on September 29, 2012

This is so wonderfully stupid. Thank you.
posted by davidjmcgee at 10:35 PM on September 29, 2012 [1 favorite]

The best things about the Edna Moda one is the giant iStockPhoto logo in the sky in the background.
posted by maryr at 10:48 PM on September 29, 2012 [1 favorite]

If the guy doing these has a few thousand spare years free I'd love to see his remake of Toy Story.
posted by tapeguy at 1:45 AM on September 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

oneswellfoop: "What does it say that he came closest with his 'Veggie Tales' copy?"

Watching some of those videos, I've thought "Wow, I could probably crank out that animation in Lightwave". Which says not much about my 3D skills, and much about Veggie Tales.
posted by jiawen at 2:00 AM on September 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

the giant iStockPhoto logo in the sky in the background

It was a nice touch.
posted by zippy at 4:23 AM on September 30, 2012

Is this how Video Brinquedo does their animation?
posted by Gordafarin at 7:49 AM on September 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

It's like N0d Fl0nders 3d!
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 10:20 AM on September 30, 2012