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25 Years Later, This Disney CGI-Film Still Looks Better Than Any of the Studio's Recent Movies (& Most of You Forgot it Even Exists)

Disney has no shortage of animated hits, but not every film it distributes gets the recognition it deserves. In 2000, the studio released Dinosaur, a visually ambitious project that redefined what CGI ...

Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is 'the greatest slip backwards' for movie CGI

Do visual effects look worse than they used to? The director of Pirates of the Caribbean says Unreal is the culprit.
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Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...

Contributor: As today's Oscar nominations show, Hollywood animation is in creative crisis

While five of 2025 highest grossers were animated, including "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Zootopia 2," creative timidity ...
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Pirates of the Caribbean Director Blames Unreal Engine and Video Game Aesthetics for the Decline of CGI in Movies

Director Gore Verbinski believes that CGI effects in movies have gotten worse in recent years because of Unreal Engine.