Gods, can I gush about the CGI in the Percy Jackson show for just a minute??
All of it is so fucking good!
The work was gone by ILM or Industrial Light and Magic, who are an incredible effects house and also one of the oldest effects houses there is. ILM was founded in the 1970s by George fucking Lucas to make the effects for the original Star Wars trilogy. They are the reason the original Jurassic Park had CGI in the first place! They worked with Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal and Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist, which has sone crazy awesome effects if you've never seen it. A part of ILM broke off in the 1990s and became fucking PIXAR!!
And Percy Jackson has had just the best looking effects I've seen in a long time. The creature work alone is worth so many awards. The minotaur was amazing.
And the illusion of Chiron is never broken, it's just seamless and perfect.
And don't get me started on Medusa's snakes. They're PERFECT. THEY ACT LIKE REAL SNAKES!!!
And the chimera was beautiful. I loved the decision to give it a cobra's frill.
Also, water is a notoriously difficult effect to do and all the water looks amazing in this show. I bet they pulled some people from the Avatar sequel to help with it.
And Grover's legs never look bad. They're always perfect. I love the decision to keep them exposed the whole time, it adds to the magical feeling of the world while also showcasing how powerful the Mist really is.
And one of my favorite effects HAS to be the way Mrs. Dodds' coat turned into her wings. I saw that and had an out of body experience.
But this most recent episode just blew me away. Specifically with this (these next gifs are by @stevenrogered) :
So, if you didn't know, tracking an effect onto someone's body is incredibly difficult. It's so difficult that CGI artists will often replace someone's body with a 3D model in order to make it easier. That could be what happens here in part, but they can't fake Walker's face.
Props to Walker for sitting as still as humanly possible during this incredibly emotional scene. Him sitting still helps make the tracking of the effect easier since the artists don't have to adjust the effect every frame to account for the slightest movements. Which brings me to the face.
It is so hard to animate human faces and not fall into the uncanny valley, and yes this effect applies to that. Look at the way the gold conforms to the shape of his mouth as he speaks. Look at how it follows the movement of his chin, his cheeks. It's PERFECT. This is an incredibly impressive effect and I wanna just worship whichever overworked and underpaid VFX artist spent hours of their life working on it.
Okay, that's all, rants over, everyone go home!
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HEY EVERYONE! I am doing an art thesis for university based on the narrative of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I need people to take my survey in order to start the practical part. It’ll only take 5 mins but if you dont have time reblog this so more people can see it! Thank you 😭
Update: those who clicked or reblogged, i adore you, thank you ❤️
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I randomly remembered Hades wearing a pinstripe suit in TSATS and goddamn-
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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ON THE ERAS TOUR
Luke Castellan from Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2023 to Present)
This visual was inspired by the TSwiftification of Luke via @tangledinlove’s stories. I’ve been eating their stories up for weeks.
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it’s hilarious to me that absolutely no one knows what the gods or high-profile monsters look like in the modern world. they have to suss it out. a guy on a motorcycle offers them help and annabeth only figures out he’s ares because he sings the praises of war and calls himself their cousin. to which he says “you must be athena’s kid,” implying that only smart people can figure out who he is. scraggly guy walks out from the mechanic room in the thrill ride o’ love and annabeth only figures out he’s hepheastus when he says “i built this.” the furies who? medusa who? echidna who? can someone please make a photographic manual already
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the scene with Percy burning the jelly beans his mom gave him to call her and tell her that he made friends at camp made me sob hysterically because he’s genuinely just a little boy who has never had real friends before aside from Grover and now he feels like he made a real friend out of Luke and their relationship is being explored so much more which is going to HURT SO BAD WHEN LUKE FUCKING BETRAYS HIM IM GOING TO LOSE IT!!!!!!
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