not sure if that girl in blue is her valkyrie or not.

Those knights and the dragon are CGI, right? Correct me if I am wrong but that's not really a good sign. Nothing against CGI usage but bad CGI is quite horrendous to witness.

Stargazer-01 said:

Those knights and the dragon are CGI, right? Correct me if I am wrong but that's not really a good sign. Nothing against CGI usage but bad CGI is quite horrendous to witness.

Yeah, one look and you can already see that it is cgi. For real, people use cgi in anime too much nowadays. With the knights and dragon being cgi, we can tell that the fights will be damn boring. Because they play a big part in the fight as a being with giant size.

The dragon actually will be for a riding scene and not the fight, but I hope the anime isn't too cgi infested. There aren't many fights anyway, the main point is exploring and sight-seeing. I hope they won't spill the cgi crap on that too, there is literally no reason to do that. What a casual adventure anime needs is the focus on their world, focusing on the beauty of your surrounding. It is good as long as they can achieve that.

Poislayer342 said:

Yeah, one look and you can already see that it is cgi. For real, people use cgi in anime too much nowadays. With the knights and dragon being cgi, we can tell that the fights will be damn boring. Because they play a big part in the fight as a being with giant size.

The dragon actually will be for a riding scene and not the fight, but I hope the anime isn't too cgi infested. There aren't many fights anyway, the main point is exploring and sight-seeing. I hope they won't spill the cgi crap on that too, there is literally no reason to do that. What a casual adventure anime needs is the focus on their world, focusing on the beauty of your surrounding. It is good as long as they can achieve that.

There's a good reason why everything was made in CGI these days.

Schedule.

EVERY animation studios nowadays are understaffed and overcontracted so much that they not only need to outsource their contracts to vietnamese/chinese/taiwanese animation studios to even have a decent chance to meet the show's airing schedule. This became even more apparent if the show was something of medium-to-low tier in funding and/or not a prioritized title. That's because in the recent years announcing a new anime adaptation from LN/manga 1-2 seasons before it airs became a new norm, which causes a literal hell on the production side.

Also using CGI in anime (or in anything else) isn't necessarily bad in itself, but the problem is how they use it and how they blend with non-CGI elements, I believe the technical term is "composition"? Good CGI is hard to notice, but bad CGI sticks out like a sore thumb. One good example is Ufotable and CGI backgrounds, which aren't very noticeable until the camera starts doing angles you normally don't see in anime. Then we have this, an animation looking like greenscreen.

Edit: Also I'm having trouble finding good CGI character examples, goes to show how hard to make it work.

laisy said:

Also using CGI in anime (or in anything else) isn't necessarily bad in itself, but the problem is how they use it and how they blend with non-CGI elements, I believe the technical term is "composition"? Good CGI is hard to notice, but bad CGI sticks out like a sore thumb. One good example is Ufotable and CGI backgrounds, which aren't very noticeable until the camera starts doing angles you normally don't see in anime. Then we have this, an animation looking like greenscreen.

Edit: Also I'm having trouble finding good CGI character examples, goes to show how hard to make it work.

Look no further than Houseki_no_Kuni. 98% animated CGI with some hand-drawn scenes mixed inside.
CGI wasn't necessarily 'bad', it's just most of the time the animators don't have enough time to put correct shading and just leave it to a program to generate shadow zones. That combined to the general lack of textures and polygons on the model creates the visual dissonance we hate.

Compare that dragon with any monsters from Monster Hunter Stories trailer and you can see how LAZY the design was. No scales, no details, just pure white like somebody forgot to color it. Compare that knight with ANY mecha from Knights and Magic series and you'll see the day and night difference.

Of course, the dragon and the knights wasn't the main point of the Anime, and the character design for MC can be called top-notch; but holy hell those bad CGI will drag down on the entire experience.