See how 15 movies looked before and after CGI (2023)

Thanos is the powerful villain in the Infinity Stones arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and appears in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War.

Thanos has been teased in various movies for years, eventually becoming the dominant villain in the climax of the Avengers movie.

He is played by Josh Brolin, who had a cardboard cutout of the character taped to his back.

Josh Brolin portrayed the character in a motion capture suit.in some scenes, a cutout of Thanos had been taped to his back. Thanos is much taller than any human, so the cleavage probably helped other actors who spoke with him know where to look for his face.

Beauty and the Beast created a magical world where Emma Watson as Belle dances with a beast.

The 2017 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast had lavish sets and costumes, as well as some CGI magic, which made Dan Stevens look like a prince turned beast.

Actually, Dan Stevens wore a ridiculous outfit to play the beast.

behind the scenes,Stevens wore a padded gray 40lb jumpsuitit empowered him and made the magic of the movie happen. The suit followed his movements, allowing the post-production team to digitally build the beast to scale while following his movements.

"So with the size and bulk and shape of the beast, it was a complete combination of things: voice exploration, dance, singing, movement, the whole package of challenges, really."Stevens tells people.

The great egg-shaped spaceships loomed over Arrival.

In 2016's "Arrival," alien "landing pads" floated around the world. The one attended by Amy Adams had a billowing, magical mist.added a mysterious effect.

Of course, they were added digitally. But the fog was real.

As ObliqueFX demonstrates, the landing pads have been added digitally. But the fog was absolutely real.

In Guardians of the Galaxy, Drax and Rocket are part of Star-Lord's team.

They are members of your "Guardians" team.

Behind the scenes is the raccoon Sean Gunn in a big green suit.

While Dave Bautista wore layers of intricate makeup to play Drax, Sean Gunn wore a green suit to play Rocket, which was later reproduced digitally. Bradley Cooper voiced Rocket

For the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee were two of the people who participated in Alice's adventures.

The series continued in 2016 with Through the Looking Glass.

They are performed by actors in pear-shaped costumes on stilts.

During the filming of the film, the effect of their bodies was achieved by the actors wearing ridiculous-looking costumes and sometimes walking on canes when they needed more height. The whole thing was staged on a green screen and Matt Lucas, who was also part of the physical performance,both offered their vows.

In the "Twilight" series, Bella entered into a relationship with Jacob, a werewolf.

Sometimes they were affectionate while he was in werewolf form, like that scene in the third Eclipse movie where she caresses him.

In fact, she was wearing a funny curvy outfit.

While Kristen Stewart can easily portray Bella as human, Taylor Lautner can't really transform into a wolf. This had to be accomplished with visual effects.

In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the greedy dragon tried to roast some dwarves alive.

Bilbo Baggins tries to stop him from terrorizing a nearby town.

On set, Benedict Cumberbatch squirmed and winced.

As it turns out, Benedict Cumberbatch wasn't just the voice of Smaug, the main antagonist of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy.The actor wore a gray motion capture suit.,crawled on the ground, and opened its mouth at unusually wide angles, as if it were spitting fire.

Even less fantastic movies like "The Wolf of Wall Street" use special effects.

In one scene in the film, a lion roams the agency floor of Leonardo DiCaprio's character. But what really happened?

The lion was really there. They were not human.

Martin Scorsese didn't ask for a CGI lion. Instead, he filmed the scene with a real lion and no humans, and then again with humans and no lions. The two photos were perfectly edited into one another and the lion trainer was digitally erased.

In "Life of Pi", Pi befriends a tiger who is both real and CGI.

For the 2012 film, director Ang Lee chose a real Bengal tiger for some scenes, but most used an identical, ultra-realistic one.digital oneAlso.

Everything was digital for sensitive scenes.

While it is possible to bring a Bengal tiger close to the human trainer, it can also be very, very dangerous. For some scenes, a puppet-like object was used as the actual representative of the digital tiger.

The "Harry Potter" movies show Quidditch. It is a dangerous sport played with broomsticks.

No Harry Potter movie is complete without a good flying scene..

Of course, it's not really done in the air.

The flight scenes arefilmed differentlythroughout the Harry Potter series, depending on the scene. Usually these are real fantasies and broomsticks filmed behind a blue or green screen where the digital environment is filled.

The floating books are another cool effect from the series.

In another scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hermione lifts books onto a shelf in the library wherefloat back into place.

They are grabbed by people with green gloves.

In fact, there are people on the other side of the shelves wearing green gloves, putting the books back.are removed in post production, making the books appear to float as if by magic.

David Jones is the villain in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from 2006.

He is the captain of the Flying Dutchman, part human, part octopus, part lobster.

It really is Bill Nighty with a lot going on in his face.

The character was played by Bill Nighy wearing scary makeup and a motion capture suit to capture his movements and facial expressions.

"Avatar" created a wonderful world ruled by grumpy blue aliens.

James Cameron's epic remains the highest-grossing film of all time.

The whole thing was filmed using motion capture as well.

To capture everyone's emotional expressions, small cameras were placed directly in front of the actors' faces. They were turned into an animated form in post production.

Ever wonder how Aaron Eckhart's face was burned in The Dark Knight?

At the end of the film, Harvey Dent transforms into "Two-Face", a villain trying to destroy Bruce Wayne's personal life after he was in an accident that burned half of his face.

You guessed it: motion capture.

Eckhart used motion tracking points on the left side of his face so they could be easily replaced digitally and maintain muscle movement while he spoke.

In Okja, a young woman tries to save a giant genetically modified "super pig."

it is likeIf "Charlotte's Web" was a sci-fi adventure movie.

It was a guy in a "plush suit."

at least it's okit was huggableAlso in real life.