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CGI has a pretty bad rep in the anime community and for pretty good reason because a lot of it is bad. So what anime has the best looking CGI to you.

For me it's the CGI in the Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works. Ufotable have mastered the art of CGI and I wish some other studios would follow in there foot steps.
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Final Fantasy ain't anime but since it's on this website, I'll put it here. It's definitely THE BEST looking one.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/2952/Final_Fantasy_VII__Advent_Children_Complete

....But if we're strictly talking anime then I'll have to say the "Blame" movie. If you compare it to Western Animated movies then the CGI still looks like shit but since CGI in anime looks shit in general, Blame has to be the best looking one.
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I really liked Inuyashiki's CGI. Also, Summer Wars was a feast for the eyes.
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this sequence looked nice

the code geass akito films also had fairly decent CG
studio orange stuff look great
studio ufotable makes good use of it
the 3d models look a bit crap but the battle at the start of the last episode of gundam the origin was extremely well animated with great camera work
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the captain harlock remake
innocence
the final fight from advent children was amazing
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Houseki no Kuni is the best looking full CG show, while the Rebuild of Eva integrate some pretty good mecha CG models.
Stylistically, a lot of Shaft shows use a lot of CG, which I thought looked especially good in Monogatari
Aug 4, 2020 9:03 AM
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imo the best anime's with the best cgi are
Houseki no kuni
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Fate series
Aug 4, 2020 9:07 AM
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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 & 2202 have really good CG, some of the best space battles I've seen. LotGH remake also has decent CG that puts the OVA's space battles to shame

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The stuff by Marza Animation Planet.
Their top works being Captain Herlock and Lupin III-the First.

Also Ufotable stuff.Their works look gorgeous.
Aug 4, 2020 9:10 AM
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C'mon guys is got to be demon slayer I personally loved the room titing scene

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gotta say beastars from the intial trailer i didnt know how i would like it but that show and story pulled it off beautifully
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The stuff by Marza Animation Planet.
Their top works being Captain Herlock and Lupin III-the First.

Also Ufotable stuff.Their works look gorgeous.

Yeah I agree I loved how they put their effort into making an anime to a movie level

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Shaft and Ufotable make a decent combination of hand drawn animation and CGI. Shaft also makes use of real life images (Madoka Magica) and it looks cool. I've not seen anything by Wit but people praise the CGI of AOT. For pure CGI, Orange wins.
Aug 4, 2020 9:18 AM

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Houseki no Kuni without a doubt. Or rather, any CGI anime made by the studio that made it.
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"Lupin III: The First" has some outstanding CGI among anime.

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Like many other people said, ufotable are those who utilize CGI the best, and most, if not all of their anime are quite beautiful. From the top of my head, I can think of the Fate series, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tales of Zestiria the X, and Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu, which all had phenomal use of CGI.

Even though I didn't watch it, from the few clips of Houseki no Kuni I've seen wandering around, it also seems to use CGI quite well (I still prefer ufotable CGI though).
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jc9622 said:
Final Fantasy ain't anime but since it's on this website, I'll put it here. It's definitely THE BEST looking one.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/2952/Final_Fantasy_VII__Advent_Children_Complete

....But if we're strictly talking anime then I'll have to say the "Blame" movie. If you compare it to Western Animated movies then the CGI still looks like shit but since CGI in anime looks shit in general, Blame has to be the best looking one.

Of course, Final Fantasy is anime. Even if it was in stop motion it would be anime. Animation + made in Japan = anime
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Houseki no Kuni without a doubt
Beastars also has a really good CGI, it was also made by Orange after all


ufotable's anime also have an excellent CGI (Fate series and Kimetsu no Yaiba)

I'd also mention :
- Dorohedoro
- Promare
- No Guns Life
- Psycho Pass 3
- Ghost in the Shell Innocence
- Mo Dao Zu Shi
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The first is still the best tbh.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jk8s
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I never watched the anime but this video is pretty nice. I didn't even know it was CGI until I looked at the comments.

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Some of my favorites are:
-Final Fantasy: Advent Children
-Love Live! (later episodes, mainly Sunshine, earlier episodes I'm a little iffy about)
-Beastars
-Land of the Lustrous
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Adimus_prime said:
CGI has a pretty bad rep in the anime community and for pretty good reason because a lot of it is bad. So what anime has the best looking CGI to you.

For me it's the CGI in the Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works. Ufotable have mastered the art of CGI and I wish some other studios would follow in there foot steps.

I believe that many high budgeted anime still ended up with good CGI, eg: Rebuild of Evangelion, Gundam Unicorn.
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Aikatsu franchise eventually starts to put out really damn good CG later on. Easily some of the best I've seen in anime.

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Advent Children. Still up to this day nothing beats it.
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Yukikaze Is an early CG OVA that blew me away. I still think it looks good till this day.
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Land of the Lustrous. Please! Give us a second season. Give us a second season...
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Vinland Saga wasn't bad.

Kingdom was hands down the worst!
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Hands down anything made by Orange, so Houseki no Kuni (TV), Beastars, Dimension W, Black Bullet, etc. ~!^v^
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thats gonna be Saint Seiya Legend of Sanctuary so far also Gantz O

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It's gotta be anything modern Sunrise. Modern Sunrise impresses me with the way they've been using CGI in their animation, particularly Gundam Unicorn, The Origin, & City Hunter Private Eyes Shinjuku. You can tell the CGI is there, but they largely use CGI on mechanical things & largely keep the mechanical things out of sight with other 2D art so that it doesn't clash badly. It's really good
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None, There's no good CG in anime at all... or, at least, one that has good character physics. Most of the times CG in anime is clunky as fuck, no matter how good looking it is, framerate issues, unrealistic character movements and physics can bring down even the most beautifully looking CGs out there.


Also, wtf, people here saying that Inuyashiki CG was good, lmfao, not even close, Inuyashiki's CG is atrocious.
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Dorohedoro, sometimes I even forgot it was CGI.
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You've gotta check out Land of the Lustrous. Incorporated so well, effectively, and beautifully.
Demon Slayer looks good as well.

Not a fan of Fate/Zero personally. The CGI often looks so out-of-place in the fight scenes at least.


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I would say Given. It looks very amazing when they play their instruments or when they did their performance.
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Beastars had some great CGI animation
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Houseki no kuni without a doubt! It made me believe that cgi can actually look good in anime
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Advent Children.

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Easily Advent Children. Came out in 2005 and just still the best 15 years later
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Akito the Exiled movies have some impressive CGI. At times better than the main series.
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Akito the Exiled movies have some impressive CGI. At times better than the main series.


Totally agree, at least it doesn't feel forced like in other animes
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First 4 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure openings.
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gibiate this season is definitely trying to show off

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Most people have already said this but Houseki no Kuni does have pretty good cgi, at first I couldn't even tell if it was cgi or not. I recommend it if you're looking for an anime with cgi that looks like traditional animation.
Personally I really like promare's cgi as well, it fits the 2D style and I think it's quite creative how they used it.
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Houseki no Kuni is the best looking full CG show

If this really is the best looking full CG show, then it only tells how bad 3DCG is for anime, because HnK looks just SLIGHTLY better than your average CG shit. Same wooden facial expressions, ugly environment etc.
I don't know why people call it "beautiful".
If you want something non eyesoreing this is the only valid answer:
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Advent Children

They at least used 3D animation to show the advantages of 3D animation.
Not something that I would like to watch on daily basis anyway.
And definitely NOT CHEAP.

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I never watched the anime but this video is pretty nice. I didn't even know it was CGI until I looked at the comments.


I dropped sunshine after 1st season, but yes, this is definitely huge improvement.
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Land of Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni) has the best mixage of CGI in a traditional animation anime, so far. This mix is what is usually the problem of CGI use in anime, and there they suceed in a Epic way.






Now, the best FULL 3D anime is.... one from Pixar, right? Pixar, Dreamworks, the current US animation for cinema is only this nowadays.

I hope that Japan never follow this mainstream.


Would be a pity if they abandon what they are the best in the planet now, to copy a style where they still are in a 2nd tier compared to western productions. This is the case of FFVII AC movie, btw (what is just like a long game 3D intro).
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I feel Studio Orange pulls off pretty good CGI for a fully CGI anime with inhuman characters. Lots of studios have used CGI very well to enhance the background, action sequences like battles or objects, and and add depth to characters.
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Land Of The Lustrous, Beastars and Dorohedoro were great.
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hmm liked dorohedoro's CGI styling
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Has to be Gantz:O, also the absolute masterclass in animation that is Kaijuu no Kodomo. For tv anime, I thnk Houseki no Kuni, Bubuki Buranki and God Eater are some of the best showings of it.
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ufotable makes such great use of cgi :)
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