Good god please can people like you just fudge off and play CoD already.

Ok, I wrote animating, but it’s not only that, it’s how CG people look, and I haven’t seen a convincing (i.e. indistinguishable) full CG human in any film so far in a close-up shot. I might be missing something, and if it was already achieved I’d love to hear in which film?

FX are always worked on until the last minute. Most trailers have unfinished effects shots and many movies get touched up even after their theatrical release to fix things before DVD/ blueray.

They don’t really look cartoony at all to me. There are orc shots in the trailer where they are completely photo-real, I think. I think dudes in costumes were have looked hokey as hell.

Spoilers for a 20 year old game below:

Movie is its own continuity. There will be a lot of changes.

Nah, lots of trailers and TV spots use unfinished FX shots, even stuff that’s not in the final cut of the film at all. A lot of these clearly have more compositing work to go, particularly with the atmosphere.

Nope. I just know that going full-CG with the humans would have looked horrible. Mo-cap for the orcs was a great idea, because they’re not real so the uncanny valley effect isn’t as strong. I think they look amazing. CG humans would have been way too unsettling.

Nope, it’s almost never the case that something is finished for a trailer. There is often quite a bit of work to be done between a trailer hitting and the movie landing in theaters.

It’s almost like it’s unfinished and they could use another 5 or 6 months to finish the CG!

Going to be grinning like an idiot the whole time I’m watching this movie and loving every second. Good, bad, I don’t even care. I’m going to love it.