Current Events > They animated an episode of The Blacklist in CGI because of COVID. It's ROUGH

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I'm just gonna repeat what I said elsewhere because there's no other way of wording it:

It's cel-shaded at times, but it doesn't disguise how rough the models are. It doesn't look like it's rendered properly most of the time, especially when it comes to buildings or other sets. The lip-sync is terrible - it's like a PS2 game. The way the scenes play out remind me of a bad Telltale game.

Apparently the CG team finished the episode in 13 days. I commend them for that, and I appreciate that they tried something cool and unorthodox for the fans. But Christ, it's a spectacle.

https://youtu.be/gsqz4WHgdzs

Just in the thumbnail, those hands are so jacked, and the segments of high and low lights on her face are so harsh and unnatural. I dont watch the show but I might actually watch this after work lol

It literally looks like a PS2 game lol. Why can't they just reshoot it now?

the new Borderlands looks stupid

Looks like that XIII remake that came out in 2020

I'd tell everyone to watch the whole episode, but it's the (premature) season finale of season 7 and it has myth arc stuff in it. If you don't care about that, or if you were to hypothetically put in the time to watch 7 seasons of the show and probably wouldn't remember this episode if you did, go nuts.

The actual footage in this episode is like an uncanny cross between an isometric game like the Sims, a Telltale game and Garry's Mod. The environments aren't rendered properly and there are scenes where the camera is free-floating and controlled manually.

I stopped watching after 12 minutes. I need to come back to this with fresh eyes.

The worst part is that it cuts back and forth between live action and CG to use what they were able to film, so you get the decent flesh-and-blood acting alongside some really rough CG they had to finish in thirteen days.

DrizztLink posted...

the new Borderlands looks stupid

I honestly think there could be a pretty fun Blacklist hero shooter. Each episode has a different Blacklister, and there have been enough of them to assemble a video game cast based on the best ones. Tech guys and muscle, and dudes who can change a person's DNA or make bugs hatch in their throat and eat their way out. There's so much awesome, goofy shit that a hero shooter or a spinoff TV show could be really fun.

It's a shame that the actual Blacklist spinoff is shit.

13 days? Those poor artists.

The Batman BLAM at the end

is this real

The hell? I haven't seen this show before so I looked it up thinking it always had that cel-shaded look...how did they think this would work, exactly? As you said the CG work isn't even good.

They should've postponed until they could get the footage.

BakonBitz posted...

The hell? I haven't seen this show before so I looked it up thinking it always had that cel-shaded look...how did they think this would work, exactly? As you said the CG work isn't even good.

They should've postponed until they could get the footage.

I would have been okay with this episode being animated if it didn't remind me of Jimmy Nutron. If they delayed this for a couple more weeks, maybe it would have looked better. Probably wouldn't have sounded much better though.

As bad as you think this looks, the rest of the episode - at least up to the 12 minute mark - is worse.

I read it as Black-ish in the title for some reason and was confused, doubly so when I saw the thumbnail

For real though, this show is action schlock mixed with conspiracy thriller, but the first season is really good and the show peaks at season 4.

Like there are episodes in season one that feel like a Hollywood movie, Anslo Garrick is still one of the best episodes of the show ever. Season four has one of the most hype conflicts, but it's spoilery as hell to talk about. It's a great show for grinding in an MMO, I got my mining level to 91 in Runescape by watching the show in one window and playing the game in another.

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