Comment by autoexec

3 days ago

Even terrible practical effects can be weirdly charming though.

No less immersion breaking though. Highly doubt “weirdly charming” is the objective for most poorly done practicals!

  • True, but it really does hold up better than CGI. For example, a Dalek isn't really fooling anybody, but it's still far better than a CGI Scorpion King. I think it's easier for the brain to accept something as a representation of something it isn't when it's farther outside of the uncanny valley