No History Channel, that is NOT state-of-the-art CG.

[Dark Jaguar]

This has been an annoyance for a while. The History Channel has a somewhat recent habit of doing CG recreations of historical events. That's all well and good, except the CG is somewhere between N64 and Dreamcast in quality. Even that would be laughable but tolerable except that they advertise this CG in advance as "the latest state of the art computer animation". Liars! Even assuming as they seem to that their audience has no video game players, they have to at least acknowledge that their viewers MAY have seen Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or, heck, even Up (awesome movie by the way). Everyone knows what good CG looks like.

It's an annoyance. Before anyone says "so what, do you expect them to tell the audience their CG sucks in advance?", well, not really. I expect them to either make their CG good enough to match their claims, or to simply not make that claim. Just say you did computer simulations. Still though, considering they (apparently) used Wings3D to make these "recreations", they're clearly on a budget.

[A Black Falcon]

1) When are the shows from? Might be pretty good for the year they're from...

2) Do you mean those battles and stuff? They did some ancient battles using Total War engine stuff, right? Or do you mean older shows with CG recreations of buildings and such?

Really though, the year it's from and the budget they had are the answers. Cable TV documentaries aren't going to have movie budgets for special effects...

[Dark Jaguar]

I don't expect movie budgets for special effects. These, by the way, are specials from the 2000's, many from the later 2000's. There's no excuse for the quality of these things. It's just lazy.

That said, again my MAIN issue is not that it's terrible. That's more laughable than anything else. It's that they CLAIM that it's the latest top of the line stuff in advertising leading up to the show.

[lazyfatbum]

>It's cutting edge and top of the line for a TV show

?

[lazyfatbum]

They'll have to reconsider their claims when Spielberg hits TV with that Dinotopia thing he's doing.

I'll try to find a link

[lazyfatbum]

Trailer will be shown in may, but promises 'the first television show with film-like special effects and cg" apparently, only the actors are real in a very Avatar-like setting of prehistory, dinosaurs and time travel.

[Dark Jaguar]

>It's cutting edge and top of the line for a TV show

?

Even then, that's not entirely true. I've seen better CG in many TV shows.

[lazyfatbum]

Really?

....Reboot? Transformers: Beast Wars?

There's a big diff between a cg effect like a starship and a completely cg scene.

[Dark Jaguar]

To be honest, there are some CG scenes in those "modern" remakes that actually do look worse than the later seasons of Reboot. Roughly... Veggie Tales level.

[lazyfatbum]

Dude dont talk shit about veggie tales.