Computer Generated Images

Now in recent past, present and for the foreseeable future, computer generated images are being used to enhance viewing of movies. Normally you would associate computer generated images with video games, but now with the increase in technology we are seeing it in movies.

How is it made?

Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) is a computer application of computer graphics that is used to contribute to the visual images seen in video games, television programs, commercials, simulators, and printed media and also in art. The visual things that you might see in something that has been made by CGI may be dynamic (moving) or static (not moving). I also may be 2-D (two dimensional) or 3-D (three dimensional). CGI is normally used in video games or science fiction movies but due to such the advance rate in technology, it is being used in all the different types of movie genres. CGI can be edited by using software programs such as Windows Movie Maker or IMovie.

Examples of movies that use computer generated images

As technology has increased in both its usage and also entertainment, more and more film studios have been using the application to enhance their movies for the viewing pleasures of the movies specific target audience. The majority of movies at the moment do possess some form CGI. Examples of some of those movies are…..

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In this movie, CGI is used to create the effect of realism on the audience. It also used to captivate the audience and experience the movie from a totally different perspective. It also enhances the the action that takes place in this action thriller.

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In 10,000 BC CGI is used practically throughout the whole of the movie. The reason for this is because of the fact that within the movie there are animals and also natural things that were present back in that time period that are not present in the time period that we are in now. Because of this they had to use CGI. The effect that this had on the audience is that it enabled them to feel and understand what it must have been like to live in that time period.

The movie I Robot just like 10,000 BC contains a lot of CGI. Unlike 10,000 BC the movie set in the future. The affect that the CGI usage in this movie has on others is that it opens the mind to the possibility of what Robots if they took over the world would be like.