Bad CG in modern anime

Zoro69420 said:
Yah couldn't watch arifureta for bad cgi, but on the other hand ufotable nailed the cgi in kimetsu no yaiba

GamerDLM said:
I generally don't pay attention, especially when it's things like copy/paste enemy foot soldiers or background characters. I don't watch anime for things like enemy designs so something like Arifureta never bothered me and I barely noticed.
Granted I also watched the entirety of SD Gundam Force and that was almost hilariously bad with how inconsistent the CGI was and how unintentionally goofy some scenes ended up looking.

2life said:


The inconsistency in "That time i got reincarnated as a slime" is sadly not goofy but hurtful. I mean the scenes with Rimuru were nice and well done, and there were background elements which hurts my eyes like the foot soldiers

Issmail22Lawfy said:
Nope, I don't mind CG in anime at all.
in fact, I have a CG anime in my favorite list (Souten No Ken 2nd Season)
if the character and story are good enough for me, that's all I care about.

Deknijff said:
Nah it usually don't bother me
imagine skipping something amazing as Overlord because CG

GamerDLM said:

But that's the thing I actually don't know what you're referencing because I don't watch background characters. When there's a scene with no focus I could understand drifting around or noticing things like long distance anime faces. But if there's something wildly more interesting happening it's easy to tunnel vision which is generally intended with the way scenes are framed.

inim said:
Obviously I watch anime for the plot, so who cares about visuals anyway?

What I really care for is that OP obviously has an opinion and doesn't give neutral options. This is probably supposed to be funny, but isn't, and makes polls even less representative than they already are.

have_a_starfish said:
Like it's been said, I also mostly get tunnel vision. I've read people complaining about the CGI crowds in Tsuki ga Kirei, but I didn't even notice them.

Then again, I just saw Nodame Cantabile and a lot of times they used CGI to animate the orchestra and focused on that as if it was something good looking... that was awful. It looked like I was watching a valve SFM clip.

In this specific case, I think the flaw lies with the director. He should direct for frames that hide the parts difficult to animate while still contributing to the viewing experience.

2life said:
Secondly yes i have a opinion i want to discuss about, thats why it's a poll from MY point of view. If you don't like the thread, drop it and go on.

raisin-kun said:
CG in anime is currently at the point of: when it's good no one notices but when it's bad it's probably the worst assault to the eyes in the world. Just watched Jormungand and the CG was pretty slick but no one would ever notice or care. Bad CG doesn't ruin things for me but it would strongly influence my opinion on the studio and staff.

2life said:


you either have balls of steel to look past trough it, or you're an absolute monster

Jus1294 said:
OP you're making Kingdom and Berserk fans cry from thinking of bad CG. I try to pay CG no mind in general, but unholy God bad CG is really noticeable and jarring especially on still frames *cough* Goblin Slayer.

Issmail22Lawfy said:


yes, I'm monster LOL.
I set a rule for my self that I will never judge a work because of Animation or Art-style.
I'm glad I did, I would never have watched a lot of those anime I enjoyed otherwise.

2life said:

Well i kinda agree and disagree.
When i see bad cg i simply shivers and start to hate it
When i see some good cg i would like to praise the editor/producer. Having some basic knowledge of filming, camera angles and cg i can (mostly) recognize cg.

One anime which i couldn't tell there was much cg is Kill la Kill. It was so well done it leaves me questioned why studios now can't do that to.

NO_U_ETC said:
I have never seen good CG. All of it looks like crap.

NO_U_ETC said:
I have never seen good CG.
All of it looks like crap. Always.
CG only belongs in video games.

2life said:


i thought that goblin slayer did okay. but im going to rewatch it anyway, so imma pay extra attention to that

LightningComet said:

I realize that this is asking way too much, but I don't think CG should ever be "necessary" in a hand-drawn 2D animated series like the vast majority of anime so far. I wish that animators and staff could actually have the adequate time and proper funding to avoid having to rely on CG as a crutch.

Asturaetus said:
Couldn't care less - most of the time I don't pay it any attention. And if I recognize some really jarring ones I shrug it off thinking "okay that looks a bit wonky". But who cares about CG when you're drawn into the story, characters, atmosphere and emotions. I am here to be drawn into the whole thing, for the fascination, and not critique it on some meta/film-making type of level.

inim said:
You have seen a lot of good CG, to the point you didn't notice it as such. The fallacy of "bad CG" bashing is that whenever there is a cheap production with cheap CG, people generalize it and reinforce their existing prejudices. For example KyoAni uses a lot of CG, I never heard that Hibike! Euphonium looked bad, though.

2life said:


hmmm you have seen Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann and Death Note and you claim those have bad CG while you rate em high?

im interested in which shows you think it is bad cg

NO_U_ETC said:

To clarify, when I say "CG" I mean 3D animation done with CG.
I don't remember the CG in Death Note, and Gurren Lagann.
I do recall some very cringy CG in Kill la Kill, that almost made me stop watching at episode 1 or 2 (whenever the fight with the boxing club took place), but the rest of the story was very enjoyable for me, and the fight scenes later on in the series, had an excellent drama aspect to it that really drew me in as a viewer.
Anyways, back to my original point, CG (the 3D kind), always looks like crap in anime.

2life said:


Then you might like Ninja Slayer From Animation. In terms of humor an absolute masterpiece. But oh man the CG is so bad it is a joke (yes an actual joke of the anime itself). Well, I know what you mean but still. It feels not right to watch bad CG.

Issmail22Lawfy said:


thanks for the recommendation I will see if the humor is as good as you say.
BTW you can try Houseki no Kuni, people say it has good CG animation

GalacticMagna said:
Depends. The worst CG anime I've seen was Ultraman at least animation wise but I was more focused on the story which was pretty good if Netflix wasn't so obsessed with CG Ultraman would've been one of the best anime I've watched.