eli5 :bad vfx is just good vfx which is left midway right?

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every person who does vfx can create ultra realistic graphics but chooses to create doom like animation why? what is diff between bad and good vfx

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No, bad VFX is not just good VFX someone didn’t spend enough time on. Not every VFX artist can make anything happen given enough time, that isn’t how it works. It also isn’t a continuous process which can be stopped at any time and have a product of gradually increasing quality. If you stop a project midway you might end up with only half the shots completed, or some layers but not others. Think about like someone writing a book, you can’t just stop them halfway through and get a crummy book.

At the most basic level there are artists of different skill. Visit the /r/blender subreddit and you will see that there are people of vastly different skill levels, and even if someone reaches the point of being photo-real it doesn’t stop there.

VFX artists need to operate within a budget and practical constraints. A TV show that needs to crank out a dozen episodes in a season probably can’t shoot for the VFX of Avatar as they don’t have the people or the time. The artists also need to work with the raw footage they are given. Usually when you see bad VFX it is going to be the artists making sacrifices to meet time and budgetary constraints, not the limitations of their technical skill. But those limits do exist and the skill cap of whatever outfit did the Supergirl television show is undoubtedly less than those who did Thor: Love and Thunder.

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