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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Hmm... I didn't find Avatar's CGI "jarring," and I'm not sure what you mean by the "silver sheen." Certainly CGI is still not perfect when mixed with live action, and I had no problem distinguishing one from the other, but I had no trouble suspending my disbelief and just enjoying the ride (which may explain why I didn't notice a "silver sheen"). In the same way, I can enjoy purely CGI movies like The Incredibles, or a more character-driven story like Solaris or Minority Report. Obviously, if you're not into SF or fantasy, these won't work for you no matter how they're made.
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Before the CGI boom you could tell a particular decade of a film from the 'grain' of the film stock being viewed (that and the kind of colour or black and white processing done). The more we move into digital, that grain is gone, replaced in many instances by an artificial grain to make it look more 'film like'. This can give it the silver look, but it's actually more down to an effect called 'bloom' which is used extensively in video games (hence why a lot of people compared Avatar to a video game). It's a kind of low-level glow around everything, silver or white. CGI fails miserably in this area, it hasn't yet managed to replicate real-world dirt like the best model makers did on miniature scales with earlier films.